unshackle

present singular third person unshackles · participle present unshackling · participle past unshackled · past unshackled

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.

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   The sooner the railway can unshackle itself from DfT the better.

   2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Wireless coverage leaves us hanging on our telephones”, in RAIL, number 965, page 43

   Synonyms: unchain

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.