Burden
Care
Care noun - Strict attentiveness to what one is doing.
Burden is a synonym for care in responsibility topic. Sometimes you can use "Burden" instead a noun "Care", if it concerns topics such as concern, anxiety, relationship, worry.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| full | full burden | full care |
| particular | particular burden | particular care |
| complete | complete burden | complete care |
| real | real burden | real care |
| Other adjectives: constant, large, great, serious, main, social, mental, extra, greater, elderly. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They share the burden of taking care of their family (which is the same family) and so they're both somewhat brooding, but Lochan has the additional burden of social anxiety, and Maya help ease that.
Source: Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl - You would go from being who you are today to a - a burden, something others have to take care of, unable to take care of yourself or do anything for yourself ever again.
Source: Fate Worse Than Death -
She also later fills in as Hope's surrogate mother; while she initially sees him as a burden, she eventually comes to care for him with the care of a mother.
Source: Missing Mom
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