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

The first step was to disencumber her decks of the long range of upper cabins, thus materially increasing her buoyancy as a sea-boat, and diminishing the area exposed to the enemy's shot and shell.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

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.

He allowed Belisarius to disencumber himself of many useless consumers of food by sending the women, the children, and the slaves out of the City.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

I had previously bought several of such things at Constantinople, and did not choose to encumber myself, or to speak more honestly, I did not choose to disencumber my purse by making any more purchases. 

From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Kinglake, Alexander William