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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
1
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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2
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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  1. free
  2. unloaded
  3. relieved
  4. freed
  5. cleared
  6. liberated
Adjective
  • On Friday, Royals right-hander Alec Marsh elected to pursue free agency.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Lula and Bolsonaro discussed the value of the minimum wage, public security policies, Brazil's free healthcare system initiatives and incentives for agribusiness.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of free
Verb
  • After shootings like these, calls for gun owners to keep their guns locked, unloaded and separate from ammunition are common.
    — Nina Vinik, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Video captured the Toyota leaving before the second robbery and returning afterward, when a man resembling Sartin unloaded a bicycle, according to the affidavit.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of unloaded
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  • Such is the inverted morality of this world that Hesione is relieved to learn that Ellie has in fact arranged an assignation with the handsome Hector, who has flirted with the young woman under a flagrant alias.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • You'll be relieved to know this year's weather will be a treat, not a trick.
    — Tammie Souza, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of relieved
Adjective
  • On the other hand, the Ni-Co alloy sweeps in to combine the freed hydrogen ions into usable fuel gas.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The freed captives, mostly women and children, were among over 300 kidnap victims freed by Nigerian forces this week.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of freed
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  • Traylor pointed to the mayor’s Inside Safe initiative, which cleared a long-standing homeless encampment on Western Avenue at 88th Street, not far from her home.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Boise High School students were evacuated after a bomb threat Friday morning, but police cleared the school by afternoon without finding a device.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleared
Adjective
  • The slide-out kitchen stores away under the bed so as not to take up any of the liberated floor space.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of liberated
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“Disencumbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disencumbered. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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