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单词 disburdening
释义

disburden

verb

dis·​bur·​den (ˌ)dis-ˈbər-dᵊn How to pronounce disburden (audio)
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 How to pronounce disburden (audio)
noun

Synonyms

  • discharge
  • disencumber
  • off-load
  • unburden
  • unlade
  • unload
  • unpack
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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

Word History

First Known Use

1532, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

disburdening

verb

present participle of disburden
1
as in unloading
to empty or rid of cargo disburdened the oil tanker before it could leak any more oil

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • unloading
  • disencumbering
  • evacuating
  • unburdening
  • unpacking
  • discharging
  • unlading
  • off-loading
  • relieving
  • lightening
  • emptying
  • freeing
  • vacating
  • clearing
  • voiding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • loading
  • packing
  • filling
  • charging
  • jamming
  • stuffing
  • jam-packing
  • cramming
  • heaping
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2
as in relieving
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

  • relieving
  • ridding
  • freeing
  • clearing
  • disencumbering
  • unburdening
  • divesting
  • rescuing
  • unfettering
  • liberating
  • enfranchising
  • loosening
  • manumitting
  • uncaging
  • emancipating
  • unbinding
  • redeeming
  • discharging
  • springing
  • loosing
  • bailing (out)
  • releasing
  • unchaining
  • delivering
  • disentangling
  • disengaging
  • extricating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • burdening
  • weighting (down)
  • saddling
  • bogging (down)
  • encumbering
  • restraining
  • hampering
  • subjecting
  • weighing down
  • fettering
  • shackling
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