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

You had better disencumber yourselves of the fatal gift of empire than that the present generation should be punished for the sins of the past.

From Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 by Bright, John

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)

"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 Paton, Raymond

Certainly they are cases of which any one who maintains the opinion in question would be glad to disencumber himself; because they clearly expose the unsoundness of his principle.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William