Meaning

2 senses

  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.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. "Then schooled in cunning and Pelasgian sleights, / his hands unshackled to the stars he spread:"

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

unshackles, unshackling, unshackled, unshackled
Base formunshackle · to unshackle
3rd person singularunshackles
Present participleunshackling
Past simpleunshackled
Past participleunshackled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyunshackle
he, she, itunshackles

Past simpleLesson

all personsunshackled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave unshackled
he, she, ithas unshackled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill unshackle

Synonyms

1 synonyms
to remove shackles:unchain

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
unseemlyunsellunsettleC1unshakableunshakenunshavenunsightly
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