Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To relieve of burdens or hardships.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from encumbrance or from whatever tends to encumber, burden, hamper, or impede; disburden: as, the troops disencumbered themselves of their baggage; to disencumber the mind of its prejudices; to disencumber an estate of debt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove an
encumbrance orburden from (someone or something).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb release from entanglement of difficulty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It had saved the estate in the days when he had been almost beaten in the struggle to disencumber the vast holdings Isaac Travers 'wide hands had grasped.
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When the Russian bureaucracy has finally succeeded in doing away with the vestiges of bourgeois property that hampered its rule over the economy, and in developing this economy for its own purposes, and in being recognized as a member of the club of great powers, it wants to enjoy its world in peace and to disencumber itself from the arbitrariness to which it is still subjected.
2009 October 2009
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When the Russian bureaucracy has finally succeeded in doing away with the vestiges of bourgeois property that hampered its rule over the economy, and in developing this economy for its own purposes, and in being recognized as a member of the club of great powers, it wants to enjoy its world in peace and to disencumber itself from the arbitrariness to which it is still subjected.
The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009
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At the same time, she breathed in a whisper an anxious wish that she might be permitted to disencumber herself from the folds of the mantle which excluded almost the power of breathing, though intended only to prevent her seeing by what road she travelled.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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MacEagh, in the meantime, proposed to Captain Dalgetty to disencumber himself of his armour, and gave him to understand that the women should transport it to a place of safety.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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It was the duty of these new companies, during a march, whenever the flanks needed to close in, to fall back to the rear, so as to disencumber the wings.
Anabasis 2007
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Actually, the Soviet Union did more than all the other allies to disencumber the Axis.
Think Progress » Murtha: ‘There Is No Question’ The U.S. Military Is Turning Against The Iraq War 2006
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The second tendency of the Vedantic movement was to disencumber itself progressively of the symbolic language, the veil of concrete myth and poetic figure, in which the Mystics had shrouded their thought and to substitute a clearer statement and more philosophical language.
The Ages of Intuition Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Having come to this resolution, the next thing was to disencumber himself of his irons.
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When I expressed my surprize that the peasants did not disencumber their grounds of these stones; a gentleman, well acquainted with the theory as well as practice of farming, assured me that the stones, far from being prejudicial, were serviceable to the crop.
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