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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Adjective

Conserve energy and enjoy safe, worry-free use with the two-hour automatic shutoff.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Many of them are free to join, and participation grew nearly 60% globally in 2024, the most recent publicly available data on run club participation rates from run tracking app Strava.

— Megan Sauer, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026

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Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026
No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

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Despite opposition from residents and some Miami Beach leaders, billionaire Ken Griffin’s plan to add a private helipad to his megayacht marina cleared a key city committee Thursday and now heads to the full City Commission.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Mexican authorities opened shelters and cleared people from beaches, and 15,000 security personnel were deployed across the coast.

— Eugene Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of cleared

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The liberated bundle then touches down somewhere else in the genome, where native DNA repair processes paste it in.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Instead, Curry connected with fans like me because, as a performer, the man seemed able to do anything, and do it with a kind of liberated abandon and eagerness to entertain.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2026

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