What's the difference between burden and unencumber?
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.
Unencumber
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
Example Sentences:
(1) An hydroxyl group in the 5 position of the indole nucleus, sterically unencumbered by hydroxyls in neighboing positions, is essential.
(2) This unencumbered view allows a more thorough removal of diseased tissue, especially in the posterior commissure and subglottis.
(3) • UK police forces and justice systems able to protect British citizens, unencumbered by unnecessary interference from the European institutions, including the European court of human rights .
(4) One hr following the competition test, each pair of animals was given access to a single unencumbered spout for a 1-hr period.
(5) Swimming does that, I say – I think it's because it speaks to something in us, something about who we intrinsically want to be – free, equal, unencumbered.
(6) Recording this variable with the apparatus employed permits measurement of changes in the level of ventilation while subjects are freely ambulant and unencumbered by invasive and flow-resistive respiratory apparatus.
(7) In a letter to the Guardian this week, Georgina Mace, professor of conservation science at Imperial College, London and Catherine Redgwell, professor of international law at UCL, said that investment in geo-engineering research had already begun and, "without international governance structures, schemes could soon be implemented unencumbered by the safeguards needed".
(8) Unencumbered by debts, all three amassed huge savings, almost all of it through 40 years of manufacturing prowess dating back to the 1950s.
(9) Saudi Arabia is very aware that Iran will be able to sell its crude unencumbered by sanctions on the international market very soon and will use all means at its disposal to make sure Iran doesn’t recapture the market share it lost over the past four years,” he said.
(10) In fact, its unencumbered design may make it more appropriate for advanced procedures than conventional systems.
(11) And, as soon as he could, he kicked over the traces; one of the most poignant moments in the memoir comes when a girlfriend gives him the choice of telling her more about himself, or the end of the relationship; he chooses the latter, and a future unencumbered by the past.
(12) Ovomucoid, which contains multiantennary complex structures at all glycosylation sites, may on the other hand display its glycans, unencumbered by the protein surface, in conformations similar to either the free glycans or the distal complexes observed in this work.
(13) I think there is a deformación profesional that affects a lot of them that makes it difficult for them to have an unencumbered relationship with the truth,” he said.
(14) The dumping of refugees in PNG is an outrage to morals, but it illustrates how unencumbered by conscience Rudd is to enact policy that secures electoral votes for power.
(15) The public good of freely accessible, unencumbered research generates more economic value for the public than the quick-hit sugar-rush you get from charging the public on the way in and again on the way out.
(16) They're not quite free of budgetary restrictions, perhaps, but they're unencumbered by local politics, and can cut and paste neighbourhoods, orchestrate traffic flows and command the weather.
(17) "An advantage the developing world has over the developed world is being unencumbered by aging infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt – a lot can be built from scratch, and built better."
(18) The results included a significant decrease in cadence (-6.3% of unencumbered walking; p less than 0.05) when comparing walking with surface electrodes with walking without any electrodes.
(19) The use of POL offers a system unencumbered by relatively high numbers of background foci which, when present, appear to be basically different from those found using the SRBC antigen.
(20) I hope my children feel unencumbered by any of the assumptions and biases left over from more prohibitive generations.