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third-person singular simple present disburdens, present participle disburdening, simple past and past participle disburdened
(transitive) To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload. examples
(transitive) To free from a source of mental trouble. quotations examples
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