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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
debarrass .
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Examples
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Captain, “we have debarrassed ourselves tout à fait from his pursuit; I hope, therefore, Miss Larolles will make a revoke of her apprehensions.”
Cecilia 2008
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Miss Gryce snored at last; she was a heavy Welsh-woman, and till now her habitual nasal strains had never been regarded by me in any other light than as a nuisance; to-night I hailed the first deep notes with satisfaction; I was debarrassed of interruption; my half-effaced thought instantly revived.
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"But though we could not seize his person," said the Captain, "we have debarrassed ourselves _tout à fait_ from his pursuit; I hope, therefore, Miss Larolles will make a revoke of her apprehensions."
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796
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