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

And it would seem that the fleet that lay in Moulin Huet had chiefly come to disencumber itself of all manner of goods for the furnishing and defence of the castle up yonder.

From The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven by Ferrar, William J.

You think my shaving will cool and disencumber you?

From Romola by Eliot, George

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

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.