Princeton's WordNet

1. burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus(noun)

   an onerous or difficult concern

   "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"

2. load, loading, burden(noun)

   weight to be borne or conveyed

3. effect, essence, burden, core, gist(noun)

   the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

4. burden(verb)

   the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

5. burden, burthen, weight, weight down(verb)

   weight down with a load

6. charge, saddle, burden(verb)

   impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

   "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. burden(noun)ˈbɜr dn

   an unpleasant responsibility

   elderly people who feel they are a burden to their families

2. burdenˈbɜr dn

   a heavy load

   ***He walked slowly up the hill with his burden.

3. burden(verb)ˈbɜr dn

   to cause difficulty for sb

   expensive vacations that had burdened him with debt

Wiktionary

1. burden(Noun)

   A heavy load.

2. burden(Noun)

   A responsibility, onus.

3. burden(Noun)

   A cause of worry.

4. burden(Noun)

   A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad; the drone of a bagpipe.

5. burden(Noun)

   Theme, core idea.

6. burden(Verb)

   To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).

Webster Dictionary

1. Burden(noun)

   that which is borne or carried; a load

2. Burden(noun)

   that which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive

3. Burden(noun)

   the capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden

4. Burden(noun)

   the tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin

5. Burden(noun)

   the proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace

6. Burden(noun)

   a fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds

7. Burden(noun)

   a birth

8. Burden(verb)

   to encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load

9. Burden(verb)

   to oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes

10. Burden(verb)

    to impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable)

11. Burden(noun)

    the verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer

12. Burden(noun)

    the drone of a bagpipe

13. Burden(noun)

    a club

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