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 now entreated the men to disencumber themselves of a portion of the loads which they were attempting to carry.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George

"And you have travelled throughout Europe for upwards of three years to disencumber yourself of �16,000 a year?" said the ambassador, smiling good-naturedly.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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