disembarrass
动词 v.
英 /ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbæɹ.əs/|/-em-/|/-ˈbaɹ-/
美 /ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbæɹ.əs/|/ˌdɪs.ɛmˈbɛɹ.əs/|/ˌdɪs.emˈbæɹ.əs/
英文释义
动词 v.
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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.).
— 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 […]
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To free (something) from complication.
— 1719, uncredited editor, A Collection of Tracts Concerning Predestination and Providence, Cambridge University Press, Preface, […] that we might disembarrass the Style as much as possible, we have taken the liberty to transpose Parentheses and other perplexed Passages, so as to clear and reduce them to continued Sentences.
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To disentangle (two things); to distinguish.
— 1751, William Warburton, commentary on An Essay on Man in The Works of Alexander Pope, London: J. & P. Knapton et al., Volume 3, p. 63, […] though it be difficult to distinguish genuine Virtue from spurious, they having both the same appearance, and both the same public effects, yet they may be disembarrassed. If it be asked, by what means? He replies […] By Conscience […]
词汇关系
词源
From dis- + embarrass. Possibly a calque of French désembarrasser. First attested in 1726 (sense 1).
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