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unshackle

verb

Etymology

From un- + shackle.

  1. inherited from *skeg-✻
  2. inherited from *skakulaz✻ — “shackle”
  3. inherited from *skakul✻
  4. inherited from sċacul
  5. inherited from shakel
  6. prefixed as unshackle — “un + shackle”

Definitions

  1. To remove shackles from someone or something.

    • The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
    • The sooner the railway can unshackle itself from DfT the better.

  2. To remove restrictions or inhibitions

    To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.

    • 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Poesy or Art Painting was, as it were, a new art, and being unshackled by old models it chose its own subjects, and took an eagle’s flight.

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