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View synonyms for burthen

burthen

[ bur-thuhn ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. an archaic variant of burden 1.


burthen

/ ˈbɜːðən /

noun

  1. an archaic word for burden 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈburthensome, adjective
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Other Words From

  • burthen·some adjective
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Example Sentences

Dorothy had tried her best to relieve Letty of half her burthen, and in return had been made a bone of contention between them.

I should be sorry to lay upon you, my dear madam, a burthen greater than the one you have already to bear.

But there, all novels are a heavy burthen while they are doing, and a sensible disappointment when they are done.

Her length is six hundred and ninety-five feet; her breadth eighty-five feet, and her burthen twenty-two thousand tons.

When John Clarke was sent to negotiate the second charter he was obliged to burthen his estate with a mortgage.

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