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

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

The treasure that remained was more than sufficient to disencumber his estates, and to restore them to the flourishing condition of olden times.

From Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Higgins, Emily Mayer

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

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