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disburdening

disburdening is the present participle and gerund of disburden.

Meaning of disburden

Verb

disburden (third-person singular simple present disburdens, present participle disburdening, simple past and past participle disburdened)

  1. (transitive) To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.
    • to disburden a pack animal
  2. (transitive) To free from a source of mental trouble.
    • My meditations […] will, I hope, be more […] calm, being thus disburdened.1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion

Questions about disburdening

What is disburdening the present participle and gerund of?
Disburdening is the present participle and gerund of disburden.

Words near disburdening in the dictionary

  1. disbudding
  2. disbuddings
  3. disbuds
  4. disburden
  5. disburdened
  6. disburdening
  7. disburdenment
  8. disburdenments
  9. disburdens
  10. disbursable
  11. disbursal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disburdening (page history and authors); disburden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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