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disembarrassed

disembarrassed is the simple past and past participle of disembarrass.

Meaning of disembarrass

Verb

disembarrass (third-person singular simple present disembarrasses, present participle disembarrassing, simple past and past participle disembarrassed)

  1. (transitive) To get (someone) out of a difficult or embarrassing situation; to free (someone) from the embarrassment (of a situation); (often reflexive) to relieve (someone of a burden, item of clothing, etc.).
    • […] I hope […] that you will have disembarrassed yourself of all sort of business that may detain you here, and so be ready to go with us […]1726, George Berkeley, letter to Thomas Prior dated 6 February, 1726, in The Works of George Berkeley, London: G. Robinson, Volume 1, p. xliv
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To free (something) from complication.
    • […] that we might disembarrass the Style as much as possible, we have taken the liberty to transpose Parentheses and other perplexed Passages, so as to clear and reduce them to continued Sentences.1719, uncredited editor, A Collection of Tracts Concerning Predestination and Providence, Cambridge University Press, Preface
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To disentangle (two things); to distinguish.
    • […] though it be difficult to distinguish genuine Virtue from spurious, they having both the same appearance, and both the same public effects, yet they may be disembarrassed. If it be asked, by what means? He replies […] By Conscience […]1751, William Warburton, commentary on An Essay on Man in The Works of Alexander Pope, London: J. & P. Knapton et al., Volume 3, p. 63

Questions about disembarrassed

What is disembarrassed the simple past and past participle of?
Disembarrassed is the simple past and past participle of disembarrass.

Words near disembarrassed in the dictionary

  1. disembarkment
  2. disembarkment syndrome
  3. disembarkments
  4. disembarks
  5. disembarrass
  6. disembarrassed
  7. disembarrasses
  8. disembarrassing
  9. disembarrassment
  10. disembarrassments
  11. disembed

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