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Belastung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burden noun A heavy load, or a difficult responsibility or worry someone has to carry.
  • encumbrance noun A legal claim against a property, such as a mortgage, unpaid tax or right of way, that limits what the owner can do with it or must be settled before it is sold.
  • exertion noun The act of applying physical or mental effort.
  • impact noun The force of one object striking another; a collision.
  • load verb To put a quantity of goods, cargo, or material onto or into something for transport or storage.
  • strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.

Senses

Belastung is used for these senses in English:

  • burden A heavy load.
  • burden A responsibility, onus.
  • encumbrance Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
  • exertion An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
  • impact (chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
  • load A burden; a weight to be carried.
  • load The volume of work required to be performed.
  • load (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

burden — full definition

  1. noun A heavy load, or a difficult responsibility or worry someone has to carry.
  2. verb To load someone down, literally or figuratively, with a burden.

encumbrance — full definition

  1. noun A legal claim against a property, such as a mortgage, unpaid tax or right of way, that limits what the owner can do with it or must be settled before it is sold.
  2. noun Something that weighs you down or gets in your way.

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