free oneself of

Mandarin borrowings from Sanskrit include the words for “convenience” and “free oneself of.”

"One can try to free oneself of the past, but the past doesn't let you do that," he said - both a theme of "The Past" and an observation of his own situation.

The very first thing in playing in public is to free oneself of all distrust in one's own powers.

Sometimes, when the weather Is blue, and warm waves tempt To free oneself of tether, And try a life exempt From worldly noise and dust, In the sphere which overbrims With passion and thought,—why, just Unable to fly, one swims....

But sometimes when the weather Is blue, and warm waves tempt To free oneself of tether, And try a life exempt From worldly noise and dust, In the sphere which overbrims With passion and thought,—why, just Unable to fly, one swims!