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millstone, cross, albatross: The old man put down his burden.
The burden of the evidence is against them. His feeling of guilt
over her death in the crash was a terrible burden to bear.
--v. 2 load, weigh down, saddle with, encumber; tax, oppress:
The mules were heavily burdened with a month's supply of food.
Don't burden me with your problems.
burdensome
adj. onerous, cumbersome, oppressive, weighty, troublesome,
wearisome, bothersome, distressing, worrying, worrisome,
vexatious, irksome: A tax on food is burdensome for those on a
low income.
bureau n. 1 Brit (writing-)desk, US chest of drawers, chest, dresser,
chifferobe, chiffonier: Simon has a beautiful antique bureau in
his office. One of my cuff-links rolled under the bureau. 2
office, agency, department, division, section, subdivision,
subsection, desk: I sent the form to the bureau a month ago,
but I still don't have my visa.
bureaucracy
n. officialdom, officialism, government, red tape,
administration, authorities: The bureaucracy survives because
the officials rely on graft for their income.
burglar n. housebreaker, thief, robber; sneak-thief, cat burglar, US
second-story or second-storey man: The burglars, remarkably,
didn't take the most valuable paintings.
burial n. interment, funeral, entombment, obsequies, sepulture: His
six ex-wives attended the burial.
burlesque n. 1 caricature, lampoon, spoof, parody, satire, mockery,
travesty, Colloq take-off; (grotesque) imitation, vulgarization,
exaggeration: In the mid-19th century, burlesques drove
pantomimes off the stage. 2 US striptease, strip show, nudie or
girlie show: The old comedians insist that burlesque acts were
an art form, but the audience went just for the girls.
--v. 3 satirize, take off, lampoon, spoof, parody, caricature,
travesty: Cervantes burlesqued the old romances in Don Quixote
.