Usually means: Release oneself from carrying load.
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  1. unburden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unburden: Merriam-Webster
  3. unburden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unburden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unburden: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unburden: Vocabulary.com
  7. unburden: Wordnik
  8. unburden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unburden: Wiktionary
  10. unburden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unburden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unburden: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unburden: Dictionary.com
  14. unburden: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Unburden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. unburden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. unburden: Rhymezone
  18. unburden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. unburden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. unburden: FreeDictionary.org
  21. unburden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. unburden: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unburden: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unburden: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unburden)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To free from burden, or relieve from trouble.

Similar:
disburden, unburthen, unencumber, disencumber, unlade, uncharge, deliver, disburthen, exonerate, relieve, more...

Opposite:
burden, load, weigh down, encumber

Types:
toil, burden, load, weight, drag, hindrance, obstacle, hitch, impediment, more...

Phrases:
unburden yourself, more...
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Similar:
disburden, unburthen, unencumber, disencumber, unlade, uncharge, deliver, disburthen, exonerate, relieve, more...

Opposite:
burden, load, weigh down, encumber

Types:
toil, burden, load, weight, drag, hindrance, obstacle, hitch, impediment, more...

Phrases:
unburden yourself, more...



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