disburden
Verb
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Verb
disburden (disburdens, present participle disburdening; past and past participle disburdened)
- (transitive) To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.
- to disburden a pack animal
- (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.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume I, Book I, Chapter XVII, page 295
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