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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I have never been able, altogether, to disembarrass my head of the most wonderful vision that ever took possession of any man’s.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Philosophers, blinded by their theological prejudices, in order to disembarrass themselves, have gone so far as to pretend that beasts have no feelings!
From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Anna Knoop
Once in the drawing-room, Ginger began to disembarrass himself of his coat, and with incomparable gloom proceeded to roll it up and place it upon the mantelpiece beside the ormolu clock.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
He was obliged to stop and speak to them, and it was difficult to disembarrass himself of friends who greeted him so kindly.
From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Dick fussily brought forward a chair for Lucy to sit in, and offered to disembarrass her of the jacket she was wearing.
From The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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