disburden

Etymology

dis- + burden

verb

  1. (transitive) To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.
    to disburden a pack animal
  2. (transitive) To free from a source of mental trouble.
    Romola's heart swelled again, so that she was forced to break off. But the need she felt to disburden her mind to Tito urged her to repress the rising anguish. 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume I, Book I, Chapter XVII, page 295
    He did it to disburden a conscience. 1677, Owen Feltham, Of Improving by Good Examples
    My meditations […] will, I hope, be more […] calm, being thus disburdened. 1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion

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