disencumber

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

The treasure that remained was more than sufficient to disencumber his estates, and to restore them to the flourishing condition of olden times.

From Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

I had previously bought several of such things at Constantinople, and did not choose to encumber myself, or to speak more honestly, I did not choose to disencumber my purse by making any more purchases. 

From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

Notes have made it possible to distinguish between the historical narrative and the documents which support it, to give references to sources, to disencumber and illustrate the text.

From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry

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