Assuage vs Disburden - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between assuage and disburden

is that assuage is to pacify or soothe (someone) while disburden is to free from a source of mental trouble.

* (l) (obsolete)

(assuag)

To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).

* Addison

Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .

* Burke

to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

* Byron

the fount at which the panting mind assuages / her thirst of knowledge

* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.

To pacify or soothe (someone).

(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

* assuagement * assuager

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(en verb)

To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload.

to disburden a pack animal

To free from a source of mental trouble.

* Feltham

He did it to disburden a conscience.

* Hammond

My meditations will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened .