disburden

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈbɜː(ɹ)dən/

Definition of disburden

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.
    “to disburden a pack animal”
    “The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.
    “to disburden a pack animal”
    “The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]”
  2. (transitive)To free from a source of mental trouble.
    “My meditations […] will, I hope, be more […] calm, being thus disburdened.”
    “He did it to disburden a conscience.”
    “I heard my sister's sobs, and thought, happy are women who can weep, and in a passionate caress disburthen the oppression of their feelings; shame and habitual restraint hold back a man.”
    “I waited now his return; eager to disburthen my mind, and to seek of him the solution of the enigma that perplexed me.”

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Etymology

From dis- + burden.

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