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
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 George Kennan
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 George Grey
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 William Wilberforce
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 Thomas Hodgkin
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