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Word Meanings - DISEMBARRASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott.

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  • CLEANSABLE
    Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
  • CLEAN-CUT
    See CLEAR-CUT
  • ELIMINATE
    To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
  • CLEANNESS
    1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
  • DISENCUMBER
    To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
  • CLEANING
    1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
  • CLEANLINESS
    State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • CLEANLY
    1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
  • FETTERLESS
    Free from fetters. Marston.
  • SHACKLE
    1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
  • EXTRICATE
    extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. 1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various
  • CLEAN-TIMBERED
    Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
  • RETRIEVER
    A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded. (more info) 1. One who retrieves.
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • CONFINELESS
    Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
  • ABSOLVER
    One who absolves. Macaulay.
  • CONSTRAINED
    Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
  • VINDICATE
    1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain
  • WHITEWASHER
    One who whitewashes.
  • ACQUIT
    Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • UNCLEAN
    1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
  • CLEAN
    Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the
  • JUSTIFY
    To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts xiii. 39. 4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. Shak.
  • DELIBERATELY
    With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
  • DELIBERATE
    1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."

 

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