intolerable burden/strain/pressure• And one night, I knew that he found himself an intolerable burden, and that in the woods he lost himself.• To accept them all would place an intolerable strain on her health, but she rarely fails to help a charity.• They have created an intolerable burden on people on lowincomes.• It would put intolerable pressure on the limited number of parliamentarylavatories.• Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exertintolerable pressure on the relationship between husband and wife. 1.• Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain, rippedfree from their mountings and crashed to the ground.• Were people put under intolerable pressure to deliver?• The fund's other trustees had left and he was under an intolerable strain, working more than 12 hours a day.