burden

charge, responsabilité

Devoir difficile que quelqu’un doit accepter ou assumer.

En anglais simple : A difficult duty that someone must accept or deal with.

• He carries the burden of supporting his family.
• We should share the burden of this work.
• The burden of proof rests with the company.

Comment l'utiliser : burden of something (The burden of caring for her parents falls on her.)

Synonymes : responsibility, duty, onus

Expressions courantes : bear the burden, share the burden, burden of proof

fardeau, poids

Quelque chose qui rend la vie difficile ou provoque des soucis.

En anglais simple : Something that makes life difficult or causes worry.

• The debt became a heavy burden.
• Her illness placed a burden on the whole family.
• Talking about his worries helped ease his burden.

Comment l'utiliser : burden on someone/something (These debts are a burden on the family.)

Synonymes : weight, strain

Expressions courantes : heavy burden, financial burden, burden on someone

fardeau, charge

Objet lourd ou ensemble d’objets lourds que quelqu’un porte.

En anglais simple : A heavy thing or group of things that someone carries.

• He carried a heavy burden.
• The donkey struggled under its burden.
• She put down her burden and rested.

Synonymes : load, weight

Expressions courantes : heavy burden, carry a burden, lay down a burden

capacité de charge, tonnage

Poids des marchandises qu’un navire peut transporter.

En anglais simple : The amount of goods a ship can carry, measured by weight.

• The vessel was listed as two hundred tons burden.
• Ships of greater burden carried more grain.
• The record gives the burden of each merchant ship.

Synonymes : carrying capacity, tonnage

Expressions courantes : tons burden, ship of burden

charge

Quantité fixe d’un produit utilisée autrefois pour le peser ou le vendre.

En anglais simple : An old fixed amount of a product, used when weighing or trading it.

• The merchant sold a burden of steel.
• Each burden had to be weighed before sale.
• The old account records three burdens of iron.

Expressions courantes : burden of steel, one burden

accabler, grever

Imposer à quelqu’un des devoirs, des frais ou des problèmes difficiles à gérer.

En anglais simple : To give someone duties, costs, or problems that are difficult to deal with.

• I do not want to burden you with my problems.
• High taxes burdened local businesses.
• The family is burdened with debt.

Comment l'utiliser : burden someone/something with something (The new rules burden small businesses with extra costs.)

Synonymes : encumber, weigh down

Contraires : relieve

Expressions courantes : burden someone with, burden the economy

alourdir

Rendre quelqu’un ou quelque chose plus lourd et plus difficile à déplacer.

En anglais simple : To make someone or something heavy or difficult to move.

• Heavy bags burdened the horse.
• Do not burden the cart with more boxes.
• She was burdened with so much luggage that she could barely walk.

Comment l'utiliser : burden someone/something with something (They burdened the donkey with heavy bags.)

Synonymes : weigh down

Expressions courantes : burden someone, burden with something

charger

Mettre une charge lourde ou indésirable sur quelqu’un ou quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To put a heavy or unwanted load on someone or something.

• They burdened the mule with supplies.
• Workers burdened the cart with wet sand.
• Why burden his shoulders with another sack?

Comment l'utiliser : burden someone/something with something (They burdened the wagon with sacks of grain.)

Synonymes : load

Expressions courantes : burden something with, burden a cart