[
  {
    "word": "burden",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8b\u025c\u02d0dn/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8b\u025c\u02d0dn/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8b\u025ddn/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/burden-1-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1749729",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A heavy load.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A responsibility, onus.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a ship of a hundred tons burden"
          },
          {
            "definition": "The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A fixed quantity of certain commodities.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A birth.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to burden a nation with taxes"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burden"
    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "burden",
    "phonetics": [],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The drone of a bagpipe.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Theme, core idea.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the burden of the argument"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burden"
    ]
  }
]