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
"I have done so to disencumber myself of the weight of an injustice."
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
Whoever wishes to travel should first strive to disencumber himself of what is artificial, and then he will get on capitally.
From A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
Do you, Bogle, disencumber your study as fast as you can of these absurd busts of the older dramatists, now fit for nothing but targets in a shooting-gallery.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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