DISBURDENING Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

disburdening

verb

present participle of disburden

as in unloading

to empty or rid of cargo disburdened the oil tanker before it could leak any more oil

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as in relieving

to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers the cinema was a place where we could disburden ourselves of our cares, if only for a couple of hours

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An employee was also observed loading dirty dishes into a dish rack and subsequently unloading clean dishes from a dish rack without washing their hands.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Many showed up every morning, unloading pallets of potatoes, working the front desk, helping others who came for food.

— Claire Galofaro, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

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The city is continuing to replace lead pipes with copper ones in the older houses in the community with funds from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), ridding the community of pipes that might harm people or contaminate water.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
The fatal crash has led city leaders and animal rights activists to take a new look at ridding New York of carriage horses.

— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026

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Google said in its release that its new model is already being used internally to optimize memory at Google’s data centers, freeing up hundreds of terabytes of memory without buying additional hardware.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Automation can improve consistency while freeing teams to focus on higher-value analysis.

— Ann Blakely, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of freeing

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In many cases, high-value interventions are surprisingly straightforward, such as resequencing dock staging, clearing high-traffic sightlines or adjusting conveyor heights.

— Allan Malcolm, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Timing & Outlook Applied Materials broke above $500 while clearing its 50-day moving average, with both its 1-month and 6-month trends turning bullish.

— Tony Zhang, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

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