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disencumber

verb as in unburden

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However, the text that will provide “both Émile’s instruction and entertainment” is to be “disencumbered of all its rigmarole”.

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Among the things we find out is that Nora hasn’t returned to clear the air but to further disencumber herself from her family.

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One striking thing about “Stranger Days,” the younger Mr. O’Farrill’s debut as a leader, is how self-secure and disencumbered it sounds.

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Since cancer survivors find themselves engaged in disencumbering themselves, perhaps Project Divest has less to do with my impending death and more to do with the death of the self that required all that stuff.

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Mr. Potts could not at once free himself from the hold of the enraged beast, for his arms were pinioned behind him by his upper garment, of which he was disencumbering himself.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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