What's the difference between burden and crush?

Burden


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.
  • (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
  • (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
  • (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
  • (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
  • (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
  • (n.) A birth.
  • (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
  • (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
  • (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
  • (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
  • (n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
  • (n.) A club.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (3) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
  • (4) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
  • (5) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
  • (6) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
  • (7) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
  • (8) The analysis indicated a high cost burden for families in all disease categories studied, although a lack of uniformity in data presentation and in the variables studied prevented specific generalizations to be made about the numbers or characteristics of families with high costs.
  • (9) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (10) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
  • (11) The aim of the study was to find whether treatment would result in an improvement of cognition, of functioning in daily life, decrease of behavioural disturbances, and decrease in burden experienced by the carers.
  • (12) Lymph proliferative disorders with a high mitotic rate, and large tumor burden, regardless of histologic features, should be treated prophylactically against tumor lysis if regrowth between cycles occurs.
  • (13) These data indicate that, compared with animals at sea level, animals at altitude have an increased body burden of COHb and will attain the COHb level associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for CO more quickly when breathing CO.
  • (14) Macro-epidemiology is concerned with the absolute and relative contributions of particular causes or diseases to the overall burden of ill-health in a population.
  • (15) Communicable diseases represent a considerable burden in terms of suffering and costs.
  • (16) This is indirect evidence suggesting that mercury from dental amalgam fillings may contribute to the body burden of mercury in the brain.
  • (17) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
  • (18) In predicting response to therapy, poor prognostic factors included large tumor burdens, advanced disease stage, and chemotherapy-resistant tumors.
  • (19) Radical postoperative irradiation (A) is burdened by 3 serious complications and a considerably higher amount of complaints.
  • (20) MMC and 5-FU did not show significant activity against large tumor burden, while a relatively good activity was detected in patients with minimal disease.

Crush


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
  • (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
  • (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
  • (v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  • (v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
  • (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  • (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
  • (2) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
  • (3) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (4) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
  • (5) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
  • (6) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
  • (7) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
  • (8) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
  • (9) In one group of rats, the RGC proteins were labeled 1 week after crushing.
  • (10) In adrenergic axons NA, DBH-IR and TH-IR accumulated with time after crushing the nerve as described earlier with biochemical techniques.
  • (11) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
  • (12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
  • (13) Labeled axons were first detected in the segment of optic nerve lying distal to the crush site 1 week after injury and had extended as far as 2.3 mm beyond the crush site by 60 days postinjury, growing at a rate similar to that at which the collateral branches of developing ganglion cell axons extend into their targets.
  • (14) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
  • (15) Freeze-dried crushed cortical bone allografts were implanted into widemouthed three-wall, two-wall, one-wall, combination, and furcation defects.
  • (16) Previous work from our laboratory had shown that goldfish retinal fragments explanted onto a polylysine substratum 1 to 2 weeks following optic nerve crush exhibit a striking clockwise pattern of neuritic outgrowth.
  • (17) Thus did Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove , deliver to his prime minister what is, in certain Tory circles, the most crushing of insults.
  • (18) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
  • (19) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
  • (20) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.