disburden

Questions about disburden

What does disburden mean?

disburden means "take the burden off; remove the burden from".

How many syllables are in disburden?

disburden has 3 syllables and divides as dis-bur-den under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for disburden?

Close synonyms include unburden. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disburden a common word?

disburden is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.