Word.ws English Dictionary

emburden

emburden verb: to place a responsibility or hindrance upon; to burden.

Verb

emburden (third-person singular simple present emburdens, present participle emburdening, simple past and past participle emburdened)

  1. (transitive) To place a responsibility or hindrance upon; to burden.
    • The PCF policy is to make maximum use of direct taxes, and to apply the centime tax with a distinction between large and small property owners in order to emburden the "large capitalists" for the benefit of the workers.1974, Ronald Tiersky, French Communism, 1920-1972, page 359
    Synonyms:
    enburden

emburden meaning in Bengali

emburden in Bengali

কোনো দায়িত্ব, বাধা সৃষ্টি করা, বোঝা চাপানো

Synonyms of emburden

Forms of emburden

third-person singular presentemburdens
present participleemburdening
past participleemburdened
pastemburdened
alternative formemburthen
alternative formimburden
alternative formimburthen

Origin of emburden

From em- + burden.

Words formed from emburden

Questions about emburden

What does emburden mean?
Emburden means to place a responsibility or hindrance upon; to burden.
What is emburden in Bengali?
Emburden in Bengali is কোনো দায়িত্ব, বাধা সৃষ্টি করা, বোঝা চাপানো. See Emburden meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is emburden?
Emburden is a verb.
What is the past tense of emburden?
The past tense of emburden is emburdened.

Words near emburden in the dictionary

  1. embuggering
  2. embuggers
  3. embuia
  4. embuias
  5. embuing
  6. emburden
  7. emburdened
  8. emburdening
  9. emburdens
  10. emburse
  11. embursed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: emburden (page history and authors); emburden (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-emburden.wav.

Cite this entry: “emburden.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/emburden. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.