BURDENS Synonyms

• a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

• a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

• a cause of great suffering and distress

• an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse

• an effort that is inconvenient

• the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

• the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position

• put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm

• the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

• something that slows or delays progress

• something tedious and boring

• clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)

• a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

• the act of dragging (pulling with force)

• pull, as against a resistance

• draw slowly or heavily

• force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

• move slowly and as if with great effort

• to lag or linger behind

• suck in or take (air)

• use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it

• walk without lifting the feet

• search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

• persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

• proceed for an extended period of time

• the quality of being a hindrance

• any entry into an area not previously occupied

• entry to another's property without right or permission

• influencing strongly

• an onerous or difficult concern

• a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

• an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice

• a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• something hard to endure

• something that causes or entails suffering

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• any structure that makes progress difficult

• (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps

• any load that is difficult to carry

• one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented)

• A legal obligation.

• Burden of proof, onus probandi

• Stigma.

• Blame.

• Responsibility; burden.

• the act of subjugating by cruelty

• the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:

• a feeling of being oppressed

• a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

• a solemn pledge of fidelity

• give to in marriage

• promise solemnly and formally