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動詞

disembarrass (三人称単数 現在形 disembarrasses, 現在分詞 disembarrassing, 過去形および過去分詞形 disembarrassed)

1. (transitive) To get (someone) out of a difficult or embarrassing situation; to free (someone) from the embarrassment (of a situation); to relieve (someone of a burden, item of clothing, etc.) (often used reflexively).
   • 1726, George Berkeley, letter to Thomas Prior dated 6 February, 1726, in The Works of George Berkeley, London: G. Robinson, Volume 1, p. xliv,^[1]

     […] 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 […]

   • 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter 10, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 277985465:

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

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, “Book 3, Chapter 2”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], OCLC 4389957:

     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 […]

   • 1979, Robert Alter and Carol Cosman, A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal, New York: Basic Books, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 52,

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     […] 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.