disencumber

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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

Do you, Bogle, disencumber your study as fast as you can of these absurd busts of the older dramatists, now fit for nothing but targets in a shooting-gallery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

It had saved the estate in the days when he had been almost beaten in the struggle to disencumber the vast holdings Isaac Travers' wide hands had grasped.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

But before Daly could disencumber himself of his weapons and costume, Helen entered the hall.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

He allowed Belisarius to disencumber himself of many useless consumers of food by sending the women, the children, and the slaves out of the City.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas