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

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

As soon as I could disencumber my feet of my overstockings I alighted from my sledge, amid profound bows and "zdrastvuitias" from the crowd, and received a hearty welcome from the patriarchal priest.

From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I now entreated the men to disencumber themselves of a portion of the loads which they were attempting to carry.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George