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
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
You think my shaving will cool and disencumber you?
From Romola by George Eliot
"I think," debated Mr. Jollyface, as he prepared to disencumber himself of his great-coat, "I think I should have wished him good-evening and passed politely, like the—ahem—Levite, on the opposite side of the way."
From The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton
Also he would only sell or let it with the furniture; he wished, in short, to disencumber himself of his purchase, and without loss.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch