disembarrass
Americanverb (used with object)
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to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
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to relieve; rid.
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to free from embarrassment.
verb
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to free from embarrassment, entanglement, etc
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to relieve or rid of something burdensome
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Origin of disembarrass
Example Sentences
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And of his vigilant sentinel there seems but one way to disembarrass himself.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
Do you think we can disembarrass ourselves of history?
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Eager to disembarrass the administration, Paine published a letter in the National Intelligencer which had cordially welcomed him, in which he said that he should not ask or accept any office.*
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
Madame Roland resembled certain politicians, who, having attained to power, would willingly disembarrass themselves of those by whose aid they reached it.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
To disembarrass myself from my seeming rudeness as politely as possible, I bowed to his gaze, and said inquiringly: ‘I have the honor to address Mr. Mundt?’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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