Wronging and Burden
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Wrong.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- An onerous or difficult concern.
- usage: "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
- synonyms: load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus
- Weight to be borne or conveyed.
- The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
- The central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse.
verb
- Weight down with a load.
- synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down
- Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.
- usage: "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
- (n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
- (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- (v.t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
- (n.) A birth.
- (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive.
- (n.) The capacity of a vessel or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- (n.) A club.
- (v.t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
- (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.
- (v.t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary