DISBURDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disburden mean? 

• DISBURDEN (verb)
  The verb DISBURDEN has 1 sense:

1. take the burden off; remove the burden from

  Familiarity information: DISBURDEN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISBURDEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disburden    ... he / she / it disburdens   
Past simple: disburdened   
Past participle: disburdened   
-ing form: disburdening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take the burden off; remove the burden from

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

disburden; unburden

Context example:

unburden the donkey

Hypernyms (to "disburden" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disburden"):

lighten (reduce the weight on; make lighter)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something

 Context examples 

I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And that Charles’s sister’s tale-bearing tongue should be relevant to the building of a Yukon fire, was apparent only to Mercedes, who disburdened herself of copious opinions upon that topic, and incidentally upon a few other traits unpleasantly peculiar to her husband’s family.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)