transitive. To free from a charge or burden.

To relieve, lighten, set free (a person, etc.) of (†from) a burden, pain, anxiety, or trouble.

transitive. To free from encumbrance; to disencumber. Also reflexive.

transitive. To relieve of a burden, impediment, or encumbrance; to disencumber. Frequently with of, from. Now rare.

transitive. To take off a burden from; to relieve of (a burden, material or immaterial); to unload, lighten (a ship); also humorously, to…

figurative and in figurative contexts. transitive. To relieve of a metaphorical load or burden; to bring relief to (a person, the heart, mind…

transitive. To rid (a person, etc. of, from, some encumbrance or hindrance); to deliver, free, relieve.

transitive. To remove a burden from (the bearer); to relieve of a burden. literal and figurative.

transitive. To unload; to free from a load or burden. Chiefly figurative, to relieve (a person, the mind, etc.) by the removal or disclosure of…

transitive. = unload, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To relieve or rid of a burden, obligation, or inconvenience; to exempt from payment, tribute, etc., confer immunity upon; (originally)…

transitive. To free from ballast or burden; to disburden.

figurative. transitive. To relieve (a person or thing) of something burdensome or unwanted. Also without of, with the nature of the burden specified…

transitive. To relieve or free from encumbrances.

transitive. To rid of that which pesters.

transitive. To rid of that which pesters or plagues.

transitive. To release (a person) from, or to free of, something onerous, esp. a duty, task, or responsibility; (also) to free of some weight or…

= disburden, v.