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# burden

«burden» in Mova's school dictionary: **A heavy load that you carry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a burden, burdens); verb (burden, burdens, burdened, burdening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A heavy load that you carry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#m1)

2) A difficult duty, worry or problem that is hard to deal with. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#m2)

3) (verb) To give someone a heavy load or a worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#m3)

4) (law) Burden of proof: the duty to show that something is true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories (a donkey carrying a burden), feelings (worries as a burden), adult life (money burdens, debts) and law (burden of proof). It tells the reader someone carries something heavy, in the body or the mind. Phrases: a burden to, ease the burden, burden of proof, a weight off my shoulders.

### examples

- The donkey carried a heavy burden up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x1)
- She didn't want to be a burden to her family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x2)
- Sharing a worry with a friend eases the burden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x3)
- Homework felt like a burden this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x4)
- Don't burden yourself with too many clubs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x5)
- In court, the burden of proof is on the person who accuses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x6)
- Debt can be a heavy burden for a family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x7)
- Here he rested his burden against the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/#x8)

### note

Countable: burdens. Adjective: burdensome. Similar: load, weight, strain. "Beast of burden" means an animal that carries loads, like a donkey or camel.

### In the corpora

- [«I hate being a burden to my friends, and I do not expect to be one much longer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/22/)
- [Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.10/)
- [These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.155/)
- [This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.164/)
- [How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «burden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.