The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BURDEN
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More clues leading to the result BURDEN
- Load of dye heartlessly dumped in stream
- Sound of bagpipes that’s hard to bear!
- Feel hot carrying heartless duke’s cargo
- Refrain from, as the French say, splitting stream
- One’s carried part of song
- Part of song that’s difficult to bear
- Load of study following back massage
- Britain’s capital under renovation, creating hardship
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The straight part
We know that "Refrain" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case refrain = burden.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does BURDEN mean?
BURDEN noun- A heavy load.
- A responsibility, onus.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- A birth.
- The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
- To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
- A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- Theme, core idea.