to disencumber
- verb
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈkʌmbər/
- Archaic
:
liberar
- He worked hard to disencumber his mind of negative thoughts and fears before the big presentation.
Examples
-
After years of accumulating debts, she finally found a way to disencumber herself from the financial burden.
-
Barring targeted killings, the West is faced with massively disproportionate retaliation on a scale that has become repugnant to minds entirely disencumbered from all memories of World War II.
Blog text (2) -
As soon as we had disencumbered ourselves from the weight of so much money, we began to think of returning to our mothers... but we heard they had both starved to death.
Fiction book (1999) -
The new policy aims to disencumber students from excessive loans, allowing them to focus on their studies.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
To free someone from something harmful or unwanted
∞
1.8
To let someone or something go free from being held
166
2.3
Make pain, stress, or worry less
98
2.3
Make someone or something free of an unwanted thing
82
5.3
To stop being part of or connected to something
22
7.6
Free a person or thing from something that traps them
15
6.1
To force something or someone out of a place where they are stuck
12
4.9
To free someone from a difficult or confusing situation
12
1.0
To remove something unwanted from a place or person
6
4.1
Remove chains and other things that hold someone so they are free
5
6.5
Free someone or something from limits and control
3
5.8
To free a person or thing from a difficult situation
1
6.2
To free someone or something from limits so they can act more freely
1
9.6
To make something come out with effort, for example a hidden object or a secret
1
9.9
To free a person or thing from an unwanted burden like debts
1
9.9
To free someone from control or false ideas
1
9.9
To remove a magic spell from someone or something
To take away heavy things and worries from someone or something
To free a person or thing from a difficult situation
Let something that was connected become separate
Antonyms
How Free
- Formal
23
7.0
104
4.3
337
1.0
- Archaic
6
4.9
166
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disencumber is built from dis- ('remove') and encumber ('to burden' or 'to weigh down'), the same root you see in cumbersome. So, to disencumber someone or something is to free it from a burden or difficulty.