Definition of burdens

"burdens" in the noun sense

1. burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus

an onerous or difficult concern

"the burden of responsibility"

"that's a load off my mind"

2. load, loading, burden

weight to be borne or conveyed

3. effect, essence, burden, core, gist

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

4. burden

the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

"burdens" in the verb sense

1. burden, burthen, weight, weight down

weight down with a load

2. charge, saddle, burden

impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

"He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"

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Quotations for burdens

Bear one another's burdens. [ St. Paul ]

Light burdens carried far grow heavy. [ French and Ger. Proverb ]

Strive
In offices of love how me may lighten
Each other's burden. [ Milton ]

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them. [ Martial ]

Great honours are great burdens; but on whom
They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. [ Ben Jonson ]

So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! [ Joubert ]

Love one time layeth burdens, another time giveth wings. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Many rise under their burdens, more like camels than palm trees. [ Proverb ]

Resignation is the name of the angel who carries most of our soul's burdens, [ J. L. Basford ]

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. [ Johnson ]

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. [ Garfield ]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]

burdens in Scrabble®

The word burdens is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters burdens:

BURDENS
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word burdens

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In burdens

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burdens in Words With Friends™

The word burdens is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters burdens:

BURDENS
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

burdens

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word burdens

BURDENS
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In burdens

BURDENS
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BURDENS
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Words containing the sequence burdens

Words that start with burdens (4 words)

Words with burdens in them (3 words)

Words that end with burdens (5 words)

Word Growth involving burdens

Shorter words in burdens

en den burden

en den dens

en ens dens

Longer words containing burdens

burdensome burdensomely

burdensome burdensomeness

burdensome overburdensome

burdensome unburdensome

disburdens

overburdens overburdensome

reburdens

unburdens unburdensome