DISENCUMBERED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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

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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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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Every client who wanted to drop the firm, DTLA said in a statement, was free to do so.

— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
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— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 12 July 2026

Definition of free

Verb

Fox also unloaded its regional cable sports networks — a savvy move before that business cratered.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
As dozens of delivery trucks unloaded decor outside of MSG, there was speculation that Swift and Kelce were building a castle inside of the venue.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026

Definition of unloaded

Verb

Hull said the bullet had not been fired and was ejected from an officer’s rifle and that the other people interviewed had been cleared by investigators.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Rookie first-round draft pick Alex Karaban was cleared to make his summer league debut after missing the California Classic due to a right ankle sprain.

— Jason Anderson July 9, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of cleared

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And there were already many claims being made for the nearly $4 billion worth of liberated slaves.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026

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