Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - unburden

(unburdens, unburdening, unburdened) If you unburden yourself or your problems to someone, you tell them about something which you have been secretly worrying about. The Centre became a place where many came to unburden themselves, to talk about their hopes and fears... Somehow he had to unburden his soul to somebody, and it couldn’t be to Laura... Some students unburden themselves of emotional problems that faculty members feel ill equipped to handle. VERB: V pron-refl, V n to n, V pron-refl of n, also V pron-refl, V n