DISBURDEN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they disburden ... he / she / it disburdens

Past simple: disburdened

Past participle: disburdened

-ing form: disburdening

Meaning:

Take the burden off; remove the burden from

Example:

unburden the donkey

Synonyms:

disburden; unburden

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "disburden" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disburden"):

lighten (reduce the weight on; make lighter)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something