v. To remove an encumbrance or burden from (someone or something).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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.
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v. release from entanglement of difficulty
Word Usage
"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."