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Unshackle

verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 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."

Etymology

From un- + shackle.

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