disencumber
Example Sentences
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Yang’s resignation from the boards of Alibaba and Yahoo Japan should disencumber negotiations around a potential deal for those assets, a positive for the stock.
From Forbes ● Jan. 18, 2012
The treasure that remained was more than sufficient to disencumber his estates, and to restore them to the flourishing condition of olden times.
From Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins
Some of the soberest had managed to disencumber themselves of their clothing, and to clutch hold of spars to support themselves; but they had another danger, from the seaman’s remorseless enemy, to contend with.
From Old Jack by William Henry Giles Kingston
He intended to retreat through Nouaillé and by its bridge, but for safety and to disencumber the road he sent the more valuable of the loot-waggons by the short cut over the ford.
From Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
"I have done so to disencumber myself of the weight of an injustice."
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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