as in free
no longer burdened with something unpleasant or painful
the paying off of my loan left me feeling delightfully disencumbered
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as in unloaded
to empty or rid of cargo
we disencumbered our pack animals as soon as we made camp that night
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as in relieved
to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers
a simple statement of the terms of the contract disencumbered of legal jargon
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Adjective
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The problem for the Ducks is that free agency looks to be a depressed market after Mitch Marner, and that’s if the Toronto Maple Leafs star makes it to July 1.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025 -
All three services have free tiers with similar features, though RingCentral Video supports slightly longer meetings.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Surely, Johnson had to be relieved to be traded by the lowly Carolina Panthers to a team that is a legitimate Super Bowl contender.—
Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
21 Dec. 2024
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They are also relieved that the war, for now, has ended.—
Loubna Mrie,
The Atlantic,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Today, Hampton’s legacy is one of revolutionary love, community and the audacity to imagine a liberated future.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The liberated students go wild on campus with some students like Marie trying to stop them.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But she’s also been freed in a way.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Kremlin on Thursday freed Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American ballerina sentenced to 12 years in prison for donating to a Ukrainian charity, in exchange for a man accused of funneling military-grade electronics from the United States to Russia’s armed forces.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Disencumbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disencumbered. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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