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disembarrass

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbæɹ.əs/Part of speech verbSorted aabdeimrrsssStarts with DEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. relieve from

Word origin

From dis- + embarrass. Possibly a calque of French désembarrasser. First attested in 1726 (sense 1).

Used in a sentence

  • He had now disembarrassed himself of his riding-dress, and walking up to his daughter, he undid the fastening of her mask.
  • Cursing these quick retorts of the young gentleman to whom he was so true a friend, Mr. Harthouse disembarrassed himself of that interview with the smallest conceivable amount of ceremony […]
  • The forthright adolescent heroine of that book, wanting to know what is this thing “love” so vaunted in fiction and so warned against by her elders, hires a strapping young peasant to disembarrass her of her virginity.

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