disembarrassv.
/dɪsɪmˈbarəs/ a. transitive. To free from embarrassment, encumbrance, complication, or intricacy; to rid; to relieve: cf. embarrass v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > make free of hindrances or encumberment
smooth1582
disclog1611
uncloga1616
unhamper1648
disembarrass1726
debarrass1789
distrammel1856
disentrammel1866
clarify1876
1726 Berkeley Let. to T. Prior 6 Feb. I hope..that you will have disembarrassed yourself of all sort of business that may detain you here.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Corn They steep the Corn..for three Days, that it may swell up, and that the Germes may open, dilate, and be disembarrassed.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxviii. 247 Assistance..in disembarassing him from the disagreeable consequence of his fear.
1820 W. Scott Abbot I. i. 16 When he had disembarassed the little plaything [a boat] from the flags in which it was entangled.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 63 We may at once disembarrass ourselves of those formidable terms—‘absolute’ and ‘unconditioned’.
b. To disentangle (one thing from another).
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > free from perplexity
disembroil1611
disentangle1660
disembrangle1726
disembarrass1742
disentwine1814
disenmesh1869
disenravel1881
1742 W. Warburton Note Pope's Ess. Man ii. 197 Though it be difficult to distinguish genuine virtue from spurious..yet they may be disembarrased.
1864 J. 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.
Derivatives
disemˈbarrassed adj. unhampered.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > not hindering or encumbering > not hindered or encumbered
freeeOE
unletted?a1425
unimpeachedc1430
frank1481
nearc1520
untangled1539
unclogged1548
uncumbered1551
unprevented1572
cumberless1581
unentangleda1586
undebarred1595
unstayed1600
disencumbered1611
unhindered1615
unretarded1615
unstopped1621
unobstructed1648
unengaged1653
extricated1657
unbeclogged1674
unhampered1702
unembarrassed1708
unencumbered1722
unstemmed1732
disembarrassed1741
unstifled1742
unimpeded1760
smooth1792
untrammelled1795
unintercepted1814
unmired1834
frictionless1848
unsmothereda1849
unbalked1888
unlocked1890
1741 W. Oldys et al. Betterton's Hist. Eng. Stage vi. 109 By pronouncing it trippingly on the Tongue, he means a clear and disembarrass'd Pronunciation.
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