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

Some of the soberest had managed to disencumber themselves of their clothing, and to clutch hold of spars to support themselves; but they had another danger, from the seaman’s remorseless enemy, to contend with.

From Old Jack by Kingston, William Henry Giles

"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

It had saved the estate in the days when he had been almost beaten in the struggle to disencumber the vast holdings Isaac Travers' wide hands had grasped.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

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