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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
  • The first 100 customers at the South Lamar opening will get free churros and chocolate.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • These 9 restaurants are now open in Scottsdale: Italian food to ice cream Krispy Kreme is giving out free doughnuts Wednesday.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of free
Verb
  • Some of the congestion was relieved several years ago when Buckeye, Maricopa County and ADOT decided to make the intersection a four-way stop as opposed to a two-way stop.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Cardona said at the time that four million people have had debt relief in the last three years, and that one in ten student borrowers have had their debt relieved—around $160 billion.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of relieved
Adjective
  • Try to live life in a more free and liberated way in August.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That label was reserved for liberated prisoners of war.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said she was freed after over four months of efforts from Iraqi government agencies working with American and Jordanian authorities.
    Nechirvan Mando, Michael Rios and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The team’s next goal is to explore how plant life colonizes landscapes that have recently been freed from ice, and to predict how this process might unfold in the future.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Disencumbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disencumbered. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

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