Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from embarrassment or entanglement; disembarrass; disencumber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To disembarrass; to relieve.
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- verb dated To
remove ; toget rid of .
Etymologies
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French débarrasser
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Examples
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She swooned dead away, and fell senseless on the floor ere Raynal could debarrass himself of the screen, and get to her.
White Lies Charles Reade 1849
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I think they will give him leave to put into execution any plan he pleases, so as to debarrass themselves of this, and take up that of the constitution.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
whichbe commented on the word debarrass
To disembarrass; to disencumber from anything that embarrasses.
May 11, 2008