Disembarrass

Quick meaning: Disembarrass is a verb meaning To get (someone) out of a difficult or embarrassing situation; to free (someone) from the embarrassment (of a situation); (often reflexive) to relieve (someone of a burden, item of clothing, etc.).

Meaning

To get (someone) out of a difficult or embarrassing situation; to free (someone) from the embarrassment (of a situation); (often reflexive) to relieve (someone of a burden, item of clothing, etc.).

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To free (something) from complication.
2. (obsolete) To disentangle (two things); to distinguish.

Example Sentences

He had now disembarrassed himself of his riding-dress, and walking up to his daughter, he undid the fastening of her mask.

Cursing these quick retorts of the young gentleman to whom he was so true a friend, Mr. Harthouse disembarrassed himself of that interview with the smallest conceivable amount of ceremony […]

The forthright adolescent heroine of that book, wanting to know what is this thing “love” so vaunted in fiction and so warned against by her elders, hires a strapping young peasant to disembarrass her of her virginity.

[…] Pat, in another sense, had done nothing for him; Nick hadn’t liked his brand of cagey camp, and had been snotty and priggish with him: so that, more shamefully still, he felt subtly disembarrassed by the death, since it erased the memory of his own bad grace.

Word Forms

• disembarrasses
• disembarrassing
• disembarrassed

Synonyms for disembarrass

Depending on context, synonyms include disburden, disencumber, extricate, free, rid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rid, free, debarrass, disencumber, disburden, disemburden.

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