Word Meanings - BURDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. (more info) birthen, birden, AS. byredhen; akin to Icel. byredhi, Dan. byrde, Sw. börda, G. bürde, OHG. burdi, Goth. baúr, fr. the root of E. bear, AS. 1. That which is borne

Additional info about word: BURDEN

The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. (more info) birthen, birden, AS. byredhen; akin to Icel. byredhi, Dan. byrde, Sw. börda, G. bürde, OHG. burdi, Goth. baúr, fr. the root of E. bear, AS. 1. That which is borne or carried; a load. Plants with goodly burden bowing. Shak. 2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown. Swift. 3. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BURDEN)

• Cargo
• Freight
• burden
• load
• consignment
• merchandise
• lading
• goods
• Grievance
• Burden
• injury
• complaint
• trouble
• oppression
• hardship
• injustice
• Grieve
• Trouble
• annoy
• distress
• bewail
• wound
• pain
• sorrow
• hurt
• afflict
• mourn
• lament
• complain
• deplore
• Hardship
• annoyance
• grievance
• calamity
• infliction
• endurance
• affliction
• Impost
• Imposition
• tax
• custom
• toll
• tribute
• excise
• duty

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BURDEN)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to BURDEN)

• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• LADY-KILLING
  The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.
• LADY'S LACES
  A slender climbing plant; dodder.
• HARDSHIP
  That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• LADYSHIP
  The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your.) Your ladyship shall observe their gravity. B. Jonson.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• BELLADONNA
  An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• MULADA
  A moor. Lockhart.
• DIGLADIATE
  To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• VINE-CLAD
  Covered with vines.