Unshackle
Full definition of unshackle
Verb
- To remove shackles from someone or something.The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
- To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.
- 1818, , 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.
Synonyms
- (to remove shackles) unchain