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imburden

imburden is the obsolete form of emburden.

Meaning of emburden

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

Forms of imburden

third-person singular presentimburdens
present participleimburdening
past participleimburdened
pastimburdened

Questions about imburden

What is imburden the obsolete form of?
Imburden is the obsolete form of emburden.

Words near imburden in the dictionary

  1. imbuia
  2. imbuias
  3. imbuing
  4. imbunche
  5. imbunches
  6. imburden
  7. Imburgia
  8. Imburgias
  9. imburse
  10. imbursed
  11. imbursement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imburden (page history and authors); emburden (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.

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