disburden

[dis-bur-dn]

verb (used with object)

1. to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.

2. to relieve of anything oppressive or annoying.

   Confession disburdened his mind of anxiety.

3. to get rid of (a burden); discharge.

verb (used without object)

1. to unload a burden.

disburden

/ dɪsˈbɜːdən /

verb

1. to remove a load from (a person or animal)

2. (tr) to relieve (oneself, one's mind, etc) of a distressing worry or oppressive thought

Other Word Forms

• disburdenment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of disburden¹

First recorded in 1525–35; dis- ¹ + burden ¹

Example Sentences

It suggests a kind of heaven: a place a person might go to achieve universal salvation, to be disburdened of her sins and returned to eternity.

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At one point, Faye thinks that the storytelling impulse itself “might spring from the desire to avoid guilt,” to “disburden ourselves of responsibility.”

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After all this, The Blot was “a conscious attempt to get back to a more straightforward storytelling”; it is mostly “disburdened of social ethical frameworks”.

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The prevailing trend of our time is, it seems, a disburdening of the past.

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The Internet may have freed many to disburden themselves of their views.

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