underburden
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In reality, the levels of work varied: some internationals seemed overburdened with tasks and responsibility, some seemed underburdened, and some faced apparently just the right amount of work."
- "Well aware of the orgy of scapegoating that the world had embarked upon, I didn't want to blame anyone, let alone run the risk of overburdening some and underburdening others with responsibility for the crunch."
- "Moving to the climate change context, as long as there is not a comprehensive climate policy in place, respect for the principles of polluter pays and proportionality will require a mechanism to determine the level of pollution created by each polluter, so as to avoid that some polluters are overburdened while others are underburdened."
- "If a man is overburdened, which is the true cause of complaint, or underburdened, which is the modern cause of complaint, he may seek redress; but he alone who is overburdened or underburdened is authorised to seek redress."
- "After five days of unsatisfactory work, we came to the conclusion that the furnace was underburdened."
- "You can tell when a furnace is underburdened by the continued tendency to make hotter iron than that desired, also by the continued use of cold air necessitating low stove heat."