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English Dictionary: disburden by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disburden
v
  1. take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"
    Synonym(s): unburden, disburden
    Antonym(s): burden, burthen, weight, weight down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disburden \Dis*bur"den\, v. i.
      To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.
      --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
               He did it to disburden a conscience.      --Feltham.
  
               My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being
               thus disburdened.                                    --Hammond.
  
      Syn: To unload; unburden; discharge; free.
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