to burden

Examples

• All

• And so I have not wanted to burden you with more.

  Molly Burke

• Why are you burdening me like that?

  Totsu (Redbird) (2020)

• And I promise not to burden you with my boyfriend drama.

  Don't Let Her In (2021)

• Oh, I should tell it to a shrink, sister, not burden you with it.

  Fiction book (1995)

• When you, when you have the pain, you don't want to burden other people with it.

  The Try Guys

• Because it's a burden for me, and I don't wanna burden you.

  After We Fell (2021)

• If you burden your friends, you won't have any.

  Robots (2005)

• I want to talk to you... about things I have confessed before... but they still burden me.

  The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

• In therapy, I was able to voice things that I needed to without the fear of burdening somebody that I love.

  Dr. Becky

• She didn't want to burden her parents with her financial troubles.

Synonyms

L

to lay

vsto burden

∞ 6.2

To make someone accept a duty or a punishment

places a heavy load or responsibility without emphasizing formality

C

to charge

vsto burden

• Formal

146 3.3

Give someone a responsibility or task

gives a heavy load or difficult duty without the formal authority aspect

O

to overwhelm

vsto burden

88 3.9

Give someone too much work or problems so they cannot cope

gives a heavy responsibility or load but not always unmanageable

S

to saddle

vsto burden

34 7.2

To give someone an unwanted heavy responsibility

gives a heavy responsibility or load without stressing it is unwelcome

E

to encumber

vsto burden

9 7.6

To make it difficult for someone or something to act

gives a heavy responsibility rather than primarily restricting movement

W

to weigh down

vsto burden

9 4.9

Make someone feel sad or worried

gives a heavy practical responsibility instead of mainly causing sadness

L

to load down

vsto burden

• Informal

1 4.2

To make someone or something carry too many heavy things

gives a heavy responsibility or load not only physical but also abstract

Antonyms

R

to relieve

34 2.0

Save people or places from danger

L

to lighten

26 2.5

To make a load or worry feel less heavy

U

to unburden

6 4.9

To remove a heavy load from someone, physical or emotional, often by talking

Compounds

B

burden of proof

• Formal

39 5.4

The duty to show evidence that a claim is true

B

beast of burden

5 3.4

An animal like a donkey or ox that people use to carry heavy loads

W

white man's burden

• Offensive

1 9.9

The idea that white people must rule and civilize non-white people

How Burdensome

to overwhelm

88 3.9

to weigh down

9 4.9

to load down

• Informal

1 4.2

to burden

77 3.7

to saddle

34 7.2

to impose on

60 5.5

Surface Forms

Etymology