disembarrass

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The arrangement made as to the Pickering estate would pay all his debts, would disembarrass his own property, and would still leave him a comfortable sum in hand.

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  1. transitive verb To free from something bothersome or encumbering; relieve.

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  • My purpose in this essay, however, is not to examine the present or the near future, but to disembarrass myself of short views and take wings into the future. —  Fabius Maximus
  • Hormone therapy doesn't get disembarrass of the endocrine cancer but instead it slows it down and stops the cancer getting worse. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • We may get disembarrass of one, but develope added that replaces the digit we got disembarrass of yesterday. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • I talked to many Doctors and did a lot of investigate and decided to do EGFR therapy and Radiation in an endeavor to disembarrass the cancer. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Debt compounding is the prizewinning resolution to intend disembarrass of binary debts finished a azygos interface. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. from Old French desembarrasser, French désembarasser (= Spanish desembarazar = Portuguese desembaraçar = Italian disimbarazzare), disentangle, from des- privative + embarrasser, embarrass: see dis- and embarrass. Cf. debarrass.
 

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/dɪsɛmˈbærəs/
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