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

You think my shaving will cool and disencumber you?

From Romola by Eliot, George

In this lonely den, Nathan and Roland began straightway to disencumber themselves of arms and provisions, seeming well satisfied with its convenience.

From Nick of the Woods by Bird, Robert M.

You had better disencumber yourselves of the fatal gift of empire than that the present generation should be punished for the sins of the past.

From Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 by Bright, John

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