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51burden — n 1. weight, onus, cross, millstone, albatross; duty, charge, obligation, responsibility, tax; strain, encumbrance, impediment, hindrance, handicap; trouble, care, anxiety, worry; hardship, difficulty, affliction, oppression; trial, tribulation,… …
52charge — 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 …
53drive — v 1. hurl, propel, expel, repel, rout, drive away, drive off. 2. task, tax, work; overwork, overtask, overtax, drive into the ground. 3. impel, urge, press, push, thrust, shove; move, actuate, set going, set in motion; spur, prod, prick, goad,… …
54encumber — v 1. impede, hamper, hinder, retard, cumber, handicap, cramp, constrain; restrain, bridle, trammel; bar, stay, obstruct, check. 2. clog, block up, fill up, congest, stuff, pack, jam. 3. burden, weigh down, weight, load down, charge, tax; oppress …
55exhaust — v 1. use up, consume, eat up, finish; expend, spend, dissipate, Sl. blow; waste, squander, fritter away, fool away, run through; Inf. scrape the bottom of the barrel. 2. drain, wear out, fatigue, weary, tire, tire out, enervate, lethargize; wind …
56fray — I n fight, brawl, wrangle, tussle, scuffle, melee, Inf. set to, Sl. milling; quarrel, row, argument, dispute, squabble, altercation; fracas, rumpus, Inf. ruckus, disturbance, breach of the peace; conflict, clash, struggle, strife, battle, action; …
57jade — I n nephrite, jadeite, jadestone, gemstone. II n 1. hack, nag, padnag, crock, rosinante, whistler, roarer, Inf. bagabones or rackabones, Inf. rip, Sl. skate, Chiefly U.S. Sl. plug, Chiefly Brit. Sl. screw, (usu. a race horse) Sl. stiff. 2. hag,… …
58kill — v 1. slay, murder, assassinate, poison, do to death, liquidate, erase, blot or wipe out, put an end to, get rid of, put away, put out of the way, silence, carry off, remove, dispatch, finish, finish off, do for, fix, settle, lay out, lay low, Inf …
59load — 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,… …
60overcharge — v 1. charge too much, Sl. soak, Sl. sting, cheat, Inf. gyp, rook, short change, Sl. rip off; Sl. take, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do, Sl. burn. 2. overload, overlade, fill too full, fill to the brim or gills, fill to overflowing,… …
