burden
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Is burden a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
2. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
3. (obsolete, rare) A birth.Examples: "… that bore thee at a burden two fair sons."obsoleterare
4. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
5. (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.Examples: "to burden a nation with taxes"; "My burdened heart would break."; "This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, […] Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]"transitive
2. (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).transitive
noun (English)
1. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.Examples: "Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear."; "As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought."
Definition source: Wiktionary