DISEMBARRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disembarrass mean? 

• DISEMBARRASS (verb)
  The verb DISEMBARRASS has 1 sense:

1. relieve from

  Familiarity information: DISEMBARRASS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISEMBARRASS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disembarrass    ... he / she / it disembarrasses   
Past simple: disembarrassed   
Past participle: disembarrassed   
-ing form: disembarrassing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relieve from

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

disembarrass; free; rid

Context example:

Rid the house of pests

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disembarrass"):

cleanse (purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins)

relieve (free from a burden, evil, or distress)

smooth; smooth out (free from obstructions)

clear (clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.)

disinfest (rid of vermin)

disembody (free from a body or physical form or reality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something

Derivation:

disembarrassment (something that extricates you from embarrassment)

 Context examples 

I sat down quite disembarrassed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)