| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A duty or responsibility that is a source of anxiety, worry, or hardship: millstone, onus, tax, weight. Informal : headache. See HEAVY, OVER. 2. Something carried physically: cargo, freight, haul, load. Sports : impost. See HEAVY, OVER. 3. Something hard to bear physically or emotionally: affliction, cross, trial, tribulation. See HEAVY, OVER. 4. An act or course of action that is demanded of one, as by position, custom, law, or religion: charge, commitment, duty, imperative, must, need, obligation, responsibility. See OBLIGATION. | | VERB: | To place a burden or heavy load on: charge, cumber, encumber, freight, lade, load, saddle, tax, weight. See OVER.
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