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  • 111guilt — noun 1 feeling ADJECTIVE ▪ intense, overwhelming, terrible, tremendous ▪ lingering ▪ sexual ▪ Catholic …

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  • 112charge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. command, exhort, instruct; assess, tax; set a price; burden; debit; strike, attack; fill, load, prepare; accuse, blame. n. accusation, allegation, impeachment, indictment; command, order, mandate,… …

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  • 113charge — v 1. fill, fill up, load, plug, pack, ram down, inject with; suffuse, pervade, permeate; spread over, overspread, overrun, saturate, diffuse; bathe, soak, steep; imbue, infuse, penetrate, interfuse. 2. command, bid, order, dictate, adjure, direct …

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  • 114load — n 1. contents, merchandise, goods, stuff; burden, charge, weight; boatload, shipload, Chiefly U.S. carload, wagonload, truckload; lading, U.S. and Canada. freight, freightage, haul. 2. burden, weight, onus, cross, millstone, albatross; duty,… …

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  • 115bear — I [[t]bɛər[/t]] v. bore, borne born, bear•ing 1) to hold up or support: The columns bear the weight of the roof[/ex] 2) to give birth to: to bear a child[/ex] 3) to produce by natural growth: a tree that bears fruit[/ex] 4) to sustain or be… …

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  • 116weight — [[t]weɪt[/t]] n. 1) wam the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs 2) phs the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity 3) wam a system of units for… …

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  • 117weight — [wāt] n. [ME weiht, altered (infl. by weien, WEIGH1) < OE wiht < wegan: see WEIGH1] 1. a portion or quantity weighing a definite or specified amount [ten pounds weight of lead] 2. a) heaviness as a quality of things …

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  • 118bur´den|less — bur|den1 «BUR duhn noun, verb. –n. 1. something carried; a load (of things, care, work, duty, or sorrow): »A light burden of cork was loaded on the old mule s back. Figurative. We have to carry each day s burden. SYNONYM(S): See syn. under load.… …

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  • 119bur|den — bur|den1 «BUR duhn noun, verb. –n. 1. something carried; a load (of things, care, work, duty, or sorrow): »A light burden of cork was loaded on the old mule s back. Figurative. We have to carry each day s burden. SYNONYM(S): See syn. under load.… …

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  • 120hamper — Synonyms and related words: Oregon boat, anchor, bag, balk, bar, barrel, barricade, basket, bear hard upon, bilbo, bind, block, bond, bonds, bottle, box, box up, bridle, burden, burthen, camisole, can, capsule, cargo, carton, case, cask, chain,… …

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