BURTHEN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A variant of 'burden'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("burthen" is a kind of...):

burden; load; loading (weight to be borne or conveyed)

Derivation:

burthen (weight down with a load)

Meaning:

Weight down with a load

Synonyms:

burden; burthen; weight; weight down

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "burthen" is one way to...):

charge (fill or load to capacity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "burthen"):

overburden (load with excessive weight)

plumb (weight with lead)

saddle (load or burden; encumber)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

burthen (a variant of 'burden')