disembarrass
/ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbæɹ.əs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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.).
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "1726, George Berkeley, letter to Thomas Prior dated 6 February, 1726, in The Works of George Berkeley, London: G. Robinson, Volume 1, p. xliv, […] I hope […] that you will have disembarrassed yourself of all sort of business that may detain you here, and so be ready to go with us […]"
- "He had now disembarrassed himself of his riding-dress, and walking up to his daughter, he undid the fastening of her mask."
- "Whatever was her meaning, her purpose seemed unalterably adopted ; at least, it was plain he had no power to shake it. He must therefore wait till the end of their short voyage, to disembarrass himself of his companion ; and, in the meanwhile, acting on the idea of her having harboured a misplaced attachment to him, he thought he should best consult her interest, and his own character, in keeping at as great a distance from her as circumstances admitted."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbæɹ.əs/
- British English: /ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbæɹ.əs/