disburdening

present participle of disburden

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disburdening
Verb
  • World War II also provides the backdrop for Concord’s Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, which honors 320 Black soldiers killed in a 1944 explosion while unloading munitions — a tragedy that led to desegregation of the military.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • That means loading, then later unloading at the airport here, and doing it all over again at the airport there.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps a dog barks too much, a cat roams through the yard, or pets are relieving themselves in unwanted areas.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After, guests sip nonalcoholic stress-relieving tonics together, with ingredients like ashwagandha, at the adjacent bar.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An inevitable part of lawn maintenance, ridding your space of weeds often takes hours to do and requires bending, straining, and stretching in less-than-ideal positions to get the job done.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Many prayed and called for ridding themselves of the divisive, violent rhetoric of the past week.
    Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the main action involved Norman Reedus’ Daryl sneaking into El Alcazar and killing pretty much everyone there of any villainous importance, while also freeing Roberto’s girlfriend Justina (Candela Saitta).
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Vladimir Lenin believed that such families were a prison for women, and his revolutionary comrades—among them, his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya; his mistress Inessa Armand; and his ally Alexandra Kollontai—were assigned the task of freeing them from it.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On a recent afternoon at The Hollow, manager Dan Welch was clearing brush when approached by KFF Health News.
    Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Demolition crews have begun tearing down the East Wing of the White House, clearing ground for a 90,000-square foot ballroom in the biggest White House expansion in more than 70 years.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Disburdening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disburdening. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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