disburden

American  

[dis-bur-dn] / dɪsˈbɜr 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.

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verb (used without object)

1. to unload a burden.

disburden British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• disburdenment
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of disburden

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

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Example Sentences

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disburden

She felt worried, and anxious to disburden her soul of its secret.

From The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes

But now he seemed to think that she ought to be glad thus to disburden her conscience and by just so much to modify her indebtedness to him!

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance

There is nothing that doth disburden the soul so of care and anxiety, nothing doth rid a man of so many perplexities and troubles, as this way.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

And he shall proceed by fitting diet and suitable medicines to resist them, as well as by purgations to disburden the body of them.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens

He renewed his inquiries; my heart was full, but how to disburden it I knew not.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown

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