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

They would not have been obliged to drive them to market to get what they could out of them and disencumber themselves.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

I had previously bought several of such things at Constantinople, and did not choose to encumber myself, or to speak more honestly, I did not choose to disencumber my purse by making any more purchases. 

From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Kinglake, Alexander William

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

Ye Chieftains disencumber Your eyes of clogging slumber; Ye mighty friends of Attil, The far-renown’d in battle!

From Targum by Borrow, George Henry