debarrass
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debarrass (third-person singular simple present debarrasses, present participle debarrassing, simple past and past participle debarrassed)
- (dated, transitive) To disembarrass, disentangle, or free from.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter X, in Jane Eyre, 1st edition, pages 156–157:
- Miss Gryce snored at last: […] I was debarrassed of interruption; my half-effaced thought instantly revived.