burden

noun

  1. 1

    weight to be borne or conveyed

  2. 2

    an onerous or difficult concern

    the burden of responsibility

    that's a load off my mind

  3. 3

    the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

  4. 4

    the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

verb

  1. 1

    impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

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

  2. 2

    weight down with a load

Synonyms

Also useful for “burden”:Unscrambler