belast

Etymology

From Middle English belasten, bilasten, from Old English behlæstan (“to load a ship”), equivalent to be- +‎ last. Cognate with Dutch belasten (“to charge, load, burden, tax”), German belasten (“to burden, charge, load, strain”).

Verb

belast (third-person singular simple present belasts, present participle belasting, simple past and past participle belasted)

1. (transitive) To burden; charge; make bound.
   • 1892, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, John Dovaston, Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard (bart.), The manuscripts of Rye and Hereford corporations:

     By theis presidentes let the posterity (for whome I record this) beware they never attempt to build them a pere with rockes only, without a mighty frame of tymber to be seled, and then belasted with rockes; [...]

   • 2009, Georg Schmid, The narrative of the Occident: an essay on its present state:

     [...] designers, etc., etc. were there to stay, no matter that they had been implicated in one way or another, were belasted, as the German language has it.

Anagrams

• Bestla, ablest, ablets, bastle, blates, bleats, stable, tables

Pronunciation

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Verb

belast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of belasten
2. imperative of belasten

Participle

belast

1. past participle of belasten

Verb

belast

1. imperative of belaste