Meanings
verbdebarrass (third-person singular simple present debarrasses, present participle debarrassing, simple past and past participle debarrassed)
present singular third person debarrasses · participle present debarrassing · participle past debarrassed · past debarrassed
- datedtransitiveTo disembarrass, disentangle, or free from.
Miss Gryce snored at last: […] I was debarrassed of interruption; my half-effaced thought instantly revived.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter X, in Jane Eyre, 1st edition, pages 156–157
Origin
- Frenchdébarrasser
- Englishdebarrass
French débarrasser
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debarrass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debarrass
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