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

He would disencumber what is popular of what is vulgar, confused, sectarian, and preserve and illustrate it by disencumbering it.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

"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

It is not so easily persuaded to disencumber us.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

That also allowed them time to disencumber the road behind them and clear away their fragments.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de