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Disburden

Definition: Disburden

Disburden

Verb

1. Take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disburden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Synonym: Disburden

Synonym: unburden (v). (additional references)
Antonym: burden (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Disburden

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disclosure

Acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn.

Facility

Render easy; Adjective: facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate; humor; (aid); lubricate; relieve.

Relief

Disburden; (free); take a load off one's chest, get a load off one's chest, take off a load of care.

Relinquishment

Rid oneself of, disburden oneself of, divest oneself of, dispossess oneself of; wash one's hands of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Disburden

English words defined with "disburden": Deonerate, Disburthen. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Disburden

"Disburden" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disburden" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Disburden

Expressions using "disburden": disburden one's mind disburden oneself of. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Disburden

Language Translations for "disburden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkarkoj (debark, discharge, disembark, dismiss, divest, exonerate, free, land, offload, relegate, set free, unburden, unlade, unload), i heq barrën (unburden). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разтоварвам (detrain, detruck, discharge, disencumber, dump, offload, relieve, unlade, unload, unsaddle), облекчавам (allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, comfort, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, palliate, redress, relieve, soothe, sweeten, unburden, unload). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyložit náklad. (various references)

   

French

  

exonérer (disencumber). (various references)

   

German

  

entlasten (discharge, disencumber, ease, exonerate, release, relieve, relieve the strain on, unburden). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεφορτώνω (discharge, unload), ανακουφίζω (allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, palliate, relieve, unburden). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megszabadít (disentangle, exonerate, liberate, quit, rescue, rid, set free, set loose, to disencumber, to disentangle, to exonerate, to extricate, to liberate, to quit, to rescue, to rid, to unburden, to unloose, to weed, to weed out, unfetter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scaricare (deduct, discharge, disembogue, dump, empty, exhaust, flow, land, offload, release, relieve, run down, set down, tip, unlade, unload, unloading, unwind, vent). (various references)

   

Manx

  

goaill yn errey jeh, goaill yn currym jeh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isburdenday

   

Portuguese

  

descarregar (discharge, dumpish, empty, evacuation, issue, land, throw, unburden, uncart, unlade, unload, unpack, unship), tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, dog, drag out, get, get off, haul, in force, iron out, lay hold of, lug, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, take out, tear off, vail, withdraw, wrest), aliviar (allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, comfort, console, ease, lighten, palliate, redress, relieve, salve, still, unburden). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

uşura (alleviate, appease, calm, ease, facilitate, lighten, pacify, palliate, relax, relieve, respite, solace, soothe, speed), se uşura de o povarã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разгружать (detrain, discharge, offload, off-load, unlade, unload), освобождать от тяжести. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rasteretiti (unballast, unburden, unload, unpack). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

descargar a (lay on, unburden, vent). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

befria från börda. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yükünden kurtulmak, yükünü hafifletmek, rahatlatmak (comfort, de-stress, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, lighten, relax, relieve, relieve one's mind, salve, straighten smb. out, thaw, thaw out, unbend, unbrace, unburden), içini boşaltmak (discharge oneself, empty, open one's heart, relieve one's feelings). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скидати тягар, знімати тягар. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Disburden

Derivations

Words beginning with "disburden": disburdened, disburdening, disburdenment, disburdenments, disburdens. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Disburden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gisburne. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Disburden

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: underbids.

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-i-n-r-s-u"

-1 letter: underbid.

-2 letters: beduins, bidders, binders, brinded, bruised, budders, buddies, burdens, burdies, burnies, inbreds, insured, rebinds, redbuds, suberin, sunbird, undried.

-3 letters: bedrid, beduin, bidden, bidder, biders, binder, birded, brides, brined, brines, bruins, bruise, budder, burden, burdie, buried, buries, burins, burned, burnie, busied, busier, debris, diners, disbud, druids, durned, inbred, indued, indues, insure, inured, inures.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-i-n-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: disburdens, sideburned.

 

+2 letters: disburdened, underbodies, undisturbed.

 

+3 letters: disburdening, subordinated, thunderbirds, underbidders.

 

+4 letters: disburdenment, disencumbered, undistributed.

 

+5 letters: disburdenments.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Disburden


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 62 75 72 64 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01100010 01110101 01110010 01100100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#98 &#117 &#114 &#100 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0062 0075 0072 0064 0065 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387585688784707180

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Disburden"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzunggjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηгръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtgjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningsuedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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