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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburden.

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Examples

  • Camus is at his best when he disburdens himself of the baggage of existentialist culture (Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, Kafka) and speaks in his own person.

    There's Something Wrong with Sven 2009

  • How prayer disburdens us of care by bringing God in to relieve and possess and hold?

    The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991

  • A long minority, which in the present times so frequently disburdens a great estate of all its incumbrances, and restores the family to their ancient splendour, could in those times have no such effect.

    II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

  • She disburdens herself of her packages and parcels, and arranges them on her husband's knees, while she goes on talking.

    The Albany Depot : a Farce William Dean Howells 1878

  • In such predicaments it has been found, that nature disburdens people of all conditions of ceremony and disgust.

    Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830 1830

  • He does not only hear our sighs, but also feels the cause of them: and if we suffer by the direct impressions of pain, he also suffers by the movings and yearnings of his own compassion: so that in a manner our relief is his own ease; and that deliverance that disburdens our minds, does also by consequence discharge his.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • In which case, as all immoderate fulness naturally endeavours after evacuation and vent; so the soul now becomes restless, and, as it were, in labour, till it disburdens itself, and discharges what it has thus conceived, by some sinful act or commission.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

  • The solid aluminium body keeps cool and disburdens the fan which is very silent anyway.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox Raidsonic Technology GmbH 2010

  • "Excellent patriots, if the people be sovereign, here is that which establishes their prerogative; if we be sincere, here is that which disburdens our souls, and makes good all our engagements; if we be charitable, here is that which embraces all parties; if we would be settled, here is that which will stand, and last forever.

    The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

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