To lighten by removing a burden; to relieve someone of a load, responsibility, or worry.
From 'dis-' (reverse, remove) combined with 'emburden' (to burden or load down). The prefix reverses the act of burdening, creating a word meaning to unload or lighten.
Medieval and Renaissance writers loved 'disemburden' because it expressed emotional relief as well as physical lightness—to disemburden the soul meant to confess and find spiritual peace.
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