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. - 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. - SORROWED
Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak. - 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. - COMFORTABLY
In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - 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.