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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISENCUMBER, v.t. [dis and encumber.]
1. To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and impediments; to disburden; as, to disencumber troops of their baggage; to disencumber the soul of its body of clay; to disencumber the mind of its cares and griefs.
2. To free from any obstruction; to free from any thing heavy or unnecessary; as a disencumbered building.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: Middle French desencombrer, from des- dis- + encombrer to encumber Date: 1598 to free from encumbrance ; disburden Synonyms: see extricate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. free from encumbrance.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disencumber Dis`en*cum"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disencumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Disencumbering.] [Pref. dis- + encumber: cf. F. d['e]sencombrer.] To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. --Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. --Dryden.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Disburden, disengage, disembarrass, release, ease, rid, set free.

Moby Thesaurus

alleviate, be light, clear, disburden, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, ease, extricate, free, free up, have little weight, kick the beam, liberate, lighten, make light, make lighter, off-load, reduce weight, relieve, set at ease, unballast, unburden, unclutter, unfreight, unlade, unload, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, untie, untwine, weigh lightly