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 be a donor from the beginning; before he can be seen to own, he will disencumber, and divide.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

He intended to retreat through Nouaillé and by its bridge, but for safety and to disencumber the road he sent the more valuable of the loot-waggons by the short cut over the ford.

From Poitiers by Belloc, Hilaire

"I have done so to disencumber myself of the weight of an injustice."

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

Notes have made it possible to distinguish between the historical narrative and the documents which support it, to give references to sources, to disencumber and illustrate the text.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey