burdens
Weights one carries
Burdens is the plural of burden—heavy loads carried physically or figuratively.
Physical burdens are things you haul: The donkeys carried their burdens up the mountain.
Figurative burdens are responsibilities, worries, or hardships that weigh on someone: the burdens of parenthood, financial burdens.
To burden someone is to load them down: I don't want to burden you with my problems.
Carried weight or burden
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- cargoTransported goods
- freightGoods being transported
- haulPull or carry laboriously
luggage · baggage · heaviness · strain · heft · pack · yoke · mass
Force upon contact
- strainExcessive stretching force
- tensionStretched or strained state
- overwhelmDefeat by excess
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
burnout · fatigue · worry · distress · overload · demands · crushing · weight
Required moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- chargeCost or accusation
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
stewardship · trusteeship · answerability · onus · expectation · requirement · mandate · care
Intense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- regretSorrow over past actions
trauma · heartache · remorse · anguish · despair · loneliness · melancholy · depression
Money owed another
- expensesMoney spent on things
- mortgageSecured home loan
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- tuitionPayment for instruction
bills · taxes · arrears · liabilities · repayment · dues · overdraft · deficit
Unjust exercise of power
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- povertySevere lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
colonialism · servitude · bondage · subjugation · exploitation · taxation · conscription · sanctions
load
Carried weight or burden
haul · luggage · baggage · heaviness · strain · heft · pack · yoke · mass · tonnage
pressure
Force upon contact
exhaustion · burnout · fatigue · worry · distress · overload · demands · crushing · weight · toll
duty
Required moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- chargeCost or accusation
commitment · stewardship · trusteeship · answerability · onus · expectation · requirement · mandate · care · dependents
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
regret · trauma · heartache · remorse · anguish · despair · loneliness · melancholy · depression · anxiety
debt
Money owed another
bills · tuition · taxes · arrears · liabilities · repayment · dues · overdraft · deficit · bankruptcy
oppression
Unjust exercise of power
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- povertySevere lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
discrimination · colonialism · servitude · bondage · subjugation · exploitation · taxation · conscription · sanctions · embargo
- annoyancesannoyance, annoyances, irritations, irritation, nuisance
- sufferingagony, anguish, misery, pain, torment
- constraintsconstraint, limits, restrictions, deadline, restraints
- slackersslackers, loafers, idlers, idler, layabouts
- requirementsrequirement, requirements, prerequisite, requisite, requisites
burdensunburdens
Releases from weight
reliefs · relieves · disburdens · lightens · alleviates
- shared burden
- beast of burdenAnimal used for hauling
- debt burdenTotal owed obligations weighing down
- burden of proofDuty to prove allegations
- tax burdenAmount owed to government
- shoulder the burdenAccept a difficult duty
burden, burdened, unburden, burdening, unburdened, overburden, disburden, unburdening, overburdened