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Disburden vs Appease - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between disburden and appease

is that disburden is to rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload while appease is to make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

disburden

English

Verb

(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 .

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    appease

    English

    Verb

    (appeas)
  • To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
  • to appease the tumult of the ocean
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
  • `First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
  • To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
  • They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

    Synonyms

    * (reduce to a state of peace) calm, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, still, lull * (come to terms with) mollify, propitiate

    Antonyms

    * antagonize

    Derived terms

    () * appeaser * appeasement * appeasatory