unfetter
English
Etymology
From un- + fetter.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʌnˈfɛtɚ/, [ʌnˈfɛɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Verb
unfetter (third-person singular simple present unfetters, present participle unfettering, simple past and past participle unfettered)
- To release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free.
- 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
- He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition
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Translations
to unchain, to free
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