Synonyms of the word

overburden

• v. To overload or overtax.
• n. (geology) The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.
• n. (archaeology) A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated.

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

burthen

• n. (obsolete, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in…
• n. Archaic spelling of burden.
• v. Archaic spelling of burden.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

land

• n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
• n. A country or region.
• n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• n. A general country, state, or territory.
• n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
• n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
• n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
• n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
• n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
• v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
• v. (transitive) To bring to land.
• v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
• v. (transitive) To deliver.
• adj. Of or relating to land.
• adj. Residing or growing on land.
• n. lant; urine.

load

• n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
• n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
• n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
• n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity…
• n. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
• n. The volume of work required to be performed.
• n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
• n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
• n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
• n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
• n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
• n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
• n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
• n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
• n. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
• n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
• v. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
• v. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
• v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
• v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
• v. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a…
• v. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
• v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
• v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
• v. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
• v. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
• v. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
• v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

loading

• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to load.
• n. (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted,…
• n. (Australia, industrial relations, countable) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher…
• v. present participle of load.

overload

• v. (transitive) to load excessively.
• v. (transitive) to provide too much power to a circuit.
• v. (transitive, object-oriented programming) to create different functions for the same name, to be used…
• v. (intransitive) to fail due to excessive load.
• n. An excessive load.
• n. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
• n. (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.

saddle

• n. A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
• n. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
• n. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
• n. (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially…
• n. The raised floorboard in a doorway.
• n. (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
• n. (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
• n. (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as…
• n. The clitellus of an earthworm.
• n. Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
• v. To put a saddle on an animal.
• v. To get into a saddle.
• v. (idiomatic) To burden or encumber.
• v. (idiomatic) To give a responsibility to someone.

soil

• n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
• n. Country or territory.
• n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
• n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
• n. Dung; compost; manure.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
• v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
• v. To make invalid, to ruin.
• v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
• n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
• n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
• v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

weight

• n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
• n. An object used to make something heavier.
• n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• n. Importance or influence.
• n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
• n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
• n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
• n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
• n. Pressure; burden.
• n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
• v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
• v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.