Disburden

disburden
    v 1: take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the
         donkey" [syn: {unburden}, {disburden}] [ant: {burden},
         {burthen}, {weight}, {weight down}]
    

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.
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         He did it to disburden a conscience.     --Feltham.
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         My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being
         thus disburdened.                        --Hammond.

   Syn: To unload; unburden; discharge; free.
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Disburden \Dis*bur"den\, v. i.
   To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind.
   --Milton.
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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "disburden":
      abridge, alleviate, be light, bereave, bleed, break bulk, clear,
      curtail, cut off, deprive, deprive of, discharge, disembarrass,
      disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disentitle,
      disinvolve, divest, drain, dump, ease, ease one of, extricate,
      free, free up, have little weight, kick the beam, liberate,
      lighten, lighten one of, make light, make lighter, milk, mine,
      off-load, reduce weight, relieve, set at ease, take away from,
      take from, tap, unballast, unburden, unclutter, unfreight, unlade,
      unload, unpack, unscramble, unship, unsnarl, weigh lightly