单词 | disburden |
释义 | disburdendisburthenv. 1. transitive. To remove a burden from (the bearer); to relieve of a burden. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > disencumber or disburden uncharge1303 ease1393 uncumberc1440 discumber?1473 exonerate1524 unlade?1529 dispatch1530 disburden1531 unburden1538 unloaden1567 free1573 disbalass1576 unload1576 disencumber1598 dispester1600 disempester1613 relieve1671 disemburden1790 1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 20. §3 The Kynges Highnes..coveting to disborden this realme of the seid great exaccions and intollerable charges of annates. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 40 I am disburthened and eased of many cares and troubles. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 47 You know she disburthen'd her Conscience but this morning to you. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvii. 295 The need she felt to disburden her mind. 2. a. transitive. To get rid of (a burden); to discharge, unload. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > do without or get rid of > a burden disburden1593 unfardle1599 1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 90 Though by my thoughts I've plunged Into my life's bondage, I yet may disburden a passion. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 31 Obliging strangers to disburthen in the City all the Merchandises which pass through it. 1713 J. Addison Cato i. vi Lucia, disburden all thy cares on me. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 258 A desert Pelican..Her load of water had disburthened there. 1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 149 Obtaining an excuse for disburdening his wrath upon her. b. reflexive. To discharge or empty itself; to fall as a river. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (reflexive)] > disembogue empty1553 shed1555 unburden1578 disburden1600 discharge1600 void1600 dischannel1607 disgorge1607 disengorge1610 enwave1628 expose1632 engulf1634 degorge1635 exhaust1833 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 333 This small river..disburdeneth it selfe into the sea not farre from the citie. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 231 The port of Hostia, where Tiber disburdens it self into the Tyrrhene sea. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. iii. 65 A new generation of men..who could no longer disburden themselves on Normandy. 3. intransitive (for reflexive). To unload, to discharge its load. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (intransitive)] > get rid of its load or burden disburden1667 society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > unload dischargea1535 unlade1547 unload1678 disburdenc1820 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 319 Where Nature multiplies Her fertil growth, and by disburd'ning grows More fruitful. View more context for this quotation c1820 S. Rogers St. Mark's Place in Italy 217 The prison-boat, that boat with many oars..Disburdening in the Canal Orfano, That drowning-place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1531 |
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