disburden
Verb

disburden (disburdens, present participle disburdening; past and past participle disburdened)

  1. (transitive) To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.
    to disburden a pack animal
  2. (transitive) To free from a source of mental trouble.
    • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume I, Book I, Chapter XVII, page 295
      Romola's heart swelled again, so that she was forced to break off. But the need she felt to disburden her mind to Tito urged her to repress the rising anguish.
    • He did it to disburden a conscience.
    • My meditations […] will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened.
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