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adjective

Definition of disencumberednext
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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disencumbered

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verb

past tense of disencumber
1
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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2
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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  1. free
  2. relieved
  3. liberated
  4. freed
Adjective
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Definition of free
Verb
  • Ryan Scott Anderson says he's relieved to be moving on.
    Danielle Bacher, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Several subway riders testified they were terrified Neely was going to attack and they were relieved when Penny put him in a chokehold and kept him there.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of relieved
Adjective
  • The images of liberated Syrians are as moving as the images of Germans after the Berlin Wall came down.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • More mass and individual graves, torture chambers and other evidence of atrocities were uncovered in the liberated territories in Kharkiv region.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • Once freed, the brothers celebrated while the deer ran on the slippery ice to safety.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Bashar also freed political prisoners and allowed more open discourse.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of freed
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