What does "unshackle" mean?

To remove shackles from someone or something.

Unshackle

Common synonyms include: deregulates, discharge, emancipate, emancipates, emancipating, extricates.

verb

verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Verb

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."
2
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."

"The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence."

From un- + shackle.