Words that rhyme with worden

n 1: an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus] 2: weight to be borne or conveyed [syn: load, loading, burden] 3: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 4: the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse v 1: weight down with a load [syn: burden, burthen, weight, weight down] [ant: disburden, unburden] 2: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" [syn: charge, saddle, burden]

n 1: the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits 2: an excessive burden [syn: overload, overburden] v 1: burden with too much work or responsibility 2: load with excessive weight

v 1: free or relieve (someone) of a burden 2: take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey" [syn: unburden, disburden] [ant: burden, burthen, weight, weight down]

n 1: a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped [syn: Verdun, battle of Verdun]