unburden

Other forms of unburden

past tense

unburdenned·

present participle

unburdenning·

third person

unburdens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unburden

What does unburden mean?

unburden means "free or relieve (someone) of a burden". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unburden?

unburden has 3 syllables: un-bur-den. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /ənˈbɝdən/.

What is another word for unburden?

Close synonyms include disburden. 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.

What is the opposite of unburden?

The recorded antonyms are burden.

Is unburden a common word?

unburden is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unburden?

2 words rhyme with unburden. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.