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disembarrass, v.|dɪsɪmˈbærəs|
[f. dis- 6 + embarrass v.: prob. after F. désembarrasse-r ‘to vnpester, disintangle, rid from intricatenesse, or troubles’ (Cotgr.). Cf. also debarrass.]
trans. To free from embarrassment, encumbrance, complication, or intricacy; to rid; to relieve: cf. embarrass.
1726Berkeley Let. to Prior 6 Feb., I hope..that you will have disembarrassed yourself of all sort of business that may detain you here. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Corn, They steep the Corn..for three Days, that it may swell up, and that the Germes may open, dilate, and be disembarrassed. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lxiii. 207 Assistance..in disembarassing him from the disagreeable consequences of his fear. 1820Scott Abbot i, When he had disembarassed the little plaything [a boat] from the flags in which it was entangled. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith ii. 63 We may at once disembarrass ourselves of those formidable terms—‘absolute’ and ‘unconditioned’.
b. To disentangle (one thing from another).
1742Warburton Comm. Pope's Ess. Man ii. 197 Though it be difficult to distinguish genuine virtue from spurious..yet they may be disembarrased. 1864J. G. Nichols in Herald & Genealogist II. 458 One of the earliest results..is to disembarrass the biography of Serlo..from that of another monk of the same name.
Hence disemˈbarrassed ppl. a., unhampered.
1741Betterton [Oldys] Eng. Stage vi. 109 By pronouncing it trippingly on the Tongue, he means a clear and disembarrass'd Pronunciation. |