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

It had saved the estate in the days when he had been almost beaten in the struggle to disencumber the vast holdings Isaac Travers' wide hands had grasped.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

I now entreated the men to disencumber themselves of a portion of the loads which they were attempting to carry.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George

It is not so easily persuaded to disencumber us.

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

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