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
The first step was to disencumber her decks of the long range of upper cabins, thus materially increasing her buoyancy as a sea-boat, and diminishing the area exposed to the enemy's shot and shell.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael
He allowed Belisarius to disencumber himself of many useless consumers of food by sending the women, the children, and the slaves out of the City.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas
"And you have travelled throughout Europe for upwards of three years to disencumber yourself of �16,000 a year?" said the ambassador, smiling good-naturedly.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
"I have done so to disencumber myself of the weight of an injustice."
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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