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[syn: unburden, disburden]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disburden \Dis*bur"den\, v. t. [See Burden, v. t.] [Cf.
Disburthen.]
To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from
something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.
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He did it to disburden a conscience. --Feltham.
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My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being
thus disburdened. --Hammond.
Syn: To unload; unburden; discharge; free.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disburden \Dis*bur"den\, v. i.
To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.
--Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disburden
v 1: take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the
donkey" [syn: unburden, disburden] [ant: burden,
burthen, weight, weight down]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "disburden":
abridge, alleviate, be light, bereave, bleed, break bulk, clear,
curtail, cut off, deprive, deprive of, discharge, disembarrass,
disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disentitle,
disinvolve, divest, drain, dump, ease, ease one of, extricate,
free, free up, have little weight, kick the beam, liberate,
lighten, lighten one of, make light, make lighter, milk, mine,
off-load, reduce weight, relieve, set at ease, take away from,
take from, tap, unballast, unburden, unclutter, unfreight, unlade,
unload, unpack, unscramble, unship, unsnarl, weigh lightly