0 to free yourself of something that is worrying you, by talking about it to someone:
He'll unburden himself to anyone who'll listen.
She found there was no safe place to unburden her feelings or talk about intimate matters.
His style is workmanlike rather than elegant, but the plot moves along briskly, unburdened by superfluous detail.
This has often been a relief, making the literature of jazz unburdened by the obfuscatory language and petty point-scoring of the academic establishment.
According to this epistemology, natural and social objects alike are unburdened by human interests and manipulation.
Adorno's early essay, unburdened by the aporias which would dominate his later writings, is at once uplifting and heart-rending in its direct, at times almost confessional, tone.
Originally the idea was that there should be an informal atmosphere unburdened by legalistic practices, prejudices and all the panoply of a court.
They might be glad to unburden themselves in response to sympathetic inquiries.
It will give many of us the opportunity which we have been wanting for some time of unburdening ourselves.
