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

Out the Russians sprang, and cut the traces through, and having in this way speedily managed to disencumber their steeds of the dead one, they immediately began the pursuit again.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George

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

Finally massage and Swedish movements directed to the entire back will help to disencumber the central nervous system, which is evidently very badly depleted of its vital force.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William

Countless numbers of haversacks were strewn about, doubtless cast away by the soldiers to disencumber themselves in falling quickly back from one position to another.

From Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Bigelow, Glenna Lindsley