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
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 Robert M. Bird
Ere he could disencumber it I pressed forward upon the landing.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens
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 Thomas Hodgkin
Previous to leaving the boat I had put on several articles of clothing, for the purpose of security, but I was soon compelled to disencumber myself of these.
From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge
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