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

Previous to leaving the boat I had put on several articles of clothing, for the purpose of security, but I was soon compelled to disencumber myself of these.

From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge, Danske

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

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?