disburden
verb
dis·bur·den (ˌ)dis-ˈbər-dᵊn 
disburdened; disburdening; disburdens
transitive verb
1
a
: to rid of a burden
disburden a pack animal
b
: unburden
disburden your conscience
2
: unload
disburdened their merchandise in the town square
intransitive verb
: discharge
the vessels disburdened at the dock
disburdenment
(ˌ)dis-ˈbər-dᵊn-mənt
noun 
Synonyms
- discharge
- disencumber
- off-load
- unburden
- unlade
- unload
- unpack
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
disburdened the oil tanker before it could leak any more oil the cinema was a place where we could disburden ourselves of our cares, if only for a couple of hours
Recent Examples on the Web This is again a reform that would very much disburden the poor, the crime being so closely linked to their particular distress. 
Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Word History
First Known Use
1532, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a
disburden
verb
1
as in to unload
to empty or rid of cargo disburdened the oil tanker before it could leak any more oil Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- unload
- unburden
- disencumber
- unlade
- discharge
- evacuate
- unpack
- off-load
- relieve
- lighten
- free
- empty
- void
- vacate
- clear
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- load
- pack
- charge
- heap
- fill
- cram
- stuff
- jam
- jam-pack
2
as in to relieve
to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers the cinema was a place where we could disburden ourselves of our cares, if only for a couple of hours Synonyms & Similar Words
- relieve
- rid
- free
- unburden
- disencumber
- clear
- divest
- unfetter
- liberate
- manumit
- emancipate
- uncage
- enfranchise
- unchain
- unbind
- rescue
- loosen
- discharge
- loose
- redeem
- extricate
- spring
- release
- disengage
- disentangle
- deliver
- bail (out)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- burden
- encumber
- restrain
- saddle
- subject
- hamper
- weight (down)
- bog (down)
- fetter
- shackle
- weigh down