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disburthen

disburthen is the obsolete spelling 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

Forms of disburthen

third-person singular presentdisburthens
present participledisburthening
past participledisburthened
pastdisburthened

Origin of disburthen

From dis- + burthen.

Questions about disburthen

What is disburthen the obsolete spelling of?
Disburthen is the obsolete spelling of disburden.

Words near disburthen in the dictionary

  1. disbursements
  2. disburser
  3. disbursers
  4. disburses
  5. disbursing
  6. disburthen
  7. disburthened
  8. disburthening
  9. disburthens
  10. disbutton
  11. disbuttoned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disburthen (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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