unmoor

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verb

To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).

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Meanings

verbunmoor (third-person singular simple present unmoors, present participle unmooring, simple past and past participle unmoored)

present singular third person unmoors · participle present unmooring · participle past unmoored · past unmoored

  1. transitiveTo unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).

    “It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”

    2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo set free or loose.

    When oblivion finally unmoors us.

    2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93
  3. intransitiveTo weigh anchor.

Origin

From un- + moor.

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APA

unmoor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmoor

MLA

“unmoor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmoor. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmoor,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmoor.

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