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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unburden
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had been feeling guilty and needed to unburden himself.
▪ It was as if Jack was preparing to unburden himself, to share his secrets with her.
▪ Nevertheless, I feel the need to unburden myself in print.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unburden

Unburden \Un*bur"den\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + burden.]

  1. To relieve from a burden.

  2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unburden

1530s, "to unload" (transitive), from un- (2) "reverse of" + burden (v.). Similar formation in German entbürden. Reflexive sense is recorded from 1580s. Related: Unburdened; unburdening.

Wiktionary
unburden

vb. (context transitive English) To free from burden, or relieve from trouble.

WordNet
unburden
  1. v. free or relieve (someone) of a burden

  2. take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey" [syn: disburden] [ant: burden]

Usage examples of "unburden".

We observed first what essential services apperception performs for the human mind in the acquisition of new ideas, and for what an extraordinary easement and unburdening the acquiring soul is indebted to it.

He peeled the socks off his pale, puckered feet, carefully unburdening himself of his armory of weapons: rifle, pistol and panga, the hidden slim-bladed flensing knife.

For by means of this assumption which was wide-spread even among the Greeks, humanity seemed to be unburdened, and the presupposed capacity for redemption could therefore be justified in its widest range.

How she wished she could tell him what was really in her heart, unburden herself of the secret of spousal abuse.

Thus, at least partly unburdened, the opportunist in him began to reassert itself fully.

Grand unburdened himself with increasingly apparent pleasure to his two companions.

Should he go away among strangers, change his name, and commence life anew, unburdened by the weight which now dragged him down?

The Shadow was still Cranston, quite unburdened with any extra garments, when he rejoined the party.

He ended abruptly--he had unburdened his mind to one who he knew understood him and sympathized with him, and he turned to the perusal of some letters just received.

The watching girl, frantic with pent up longings, unbuttoned her blouse and quickly unburdened her bosom from the tight bra restraining it.

Safe and secure in the warmth of madame, Susie unburdened herself of the tormenting knowledge which was haunting her.

Having unburdened herself of various ill-natured remarks about Maud Leighton at intervals during the course of the morning, she chose the luncheon hour as a suitable time for the recountal to Jim of the whole affair of the letter, leading off with the snappish remark that she should have thought Maud could have found a better use for her money than to squander it sending letters by air mail.

Braggen, well hardened for war by his festering grudges, and unburdened by initiate mage talent.

She was a woman with a life of her own, not a child willing and even eager to listen while he unburdened himself of all his troubles.

Intellectual light, become that very light, pure, buoyant, unburdened, raised to Godhood or, better, knowing its Godhood, all aflame then--but crushed out once more if it should take up the discarded burden.