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as in to unload
to empty or rid of cargo
disburdened the oil tanker before it could leak any more oil
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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
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Recent Examples of disburden
Nelson sometimes counsels musicians to feel, not count — to disburden themselves of metronomic ideas about tempo and go with the flow.
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Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
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
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Owners unable to unload their EVs or still torn over Tesla have been caught in the middle.—
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Once triggered, the black mamba unloads a relentless flurry of high-speed bites.—
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Rather than rising up and killing its former masters, Murderbot just goes about performing its security work, relieving the boredom by watching a lot of entertainment media.—
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Trump rejected a 90-day pause in tariffs set to take effect on Wednesday, a bit of rumor that briefly relieved agitated financial markets before it was promptly dismissed by the White House as fiction.—
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One hand is freed just long enough to hold the receiver when making phone calls.—
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By eliminating or at least reducing manual, error-prone processes, these applications free up finance teams to focus on strategic initiatives like scaling operations and optimizing capital allocation.—
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“Disburden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disburden. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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