Word Meanings - CAREWORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

BURDENER
One who loads; a oppressor.
CAREWORN
Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
BURDENOUS
Burdensome. "Burdenous taxations." Shak.
BURDENSOME
Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness,
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
OVERBURDEN
To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.
UNBURDEN
1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.
FABURDEN
A species of counterpoint with a drone bass. A succession of chords of the sixth. 2. A monotonous refrain. Holland.
DISBURDEN
To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond. Syn.
OVERBURDENSOME
Too burdensome.