Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-EN-CUM'BER
DIS-EN-CHANT'MENTDIS-EN-CUM'BER-ED
DIS-EN-CUM'BER, v.t. [dis and encumber.]
- To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and impediments; to disburden; as, to disencumber troops of their baggage; to disencumber the soul of its body of clay; to disencumber the mind of its cares and griefs.
- To free from any obstruction; to free from any thing heavy or unnecessary; as, a disencumbered building. – Addison.
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