Unshackle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unshackle is a verb meaning To remove shackles from someone or something.
Meaning
To remove shackles from someone or something.
More Meanings
- To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.
Example Sentences
The sooner the railway can unshackle itself from DfT the better.
The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
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.
Word Forms
- unshackles
- unshackling
- unshackled
Synonyms for unshackle
Depending on context, synonyms include unchain.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unbridle, unmanacle, unleash, unfetter, disencumber, unharness.
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