unmoor
to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
to bring to the state of riding with a single anchor after being moored by two or more.
(of a vessel) to become unmoored.
Origin of unmoor
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How to use unmoor in a sentence
Millennials are “unmoored from institutions,” gasped Pew Research recently.
Rand Paul is Politically Divergent. And So He Must Be Stopped. | Nick Gillespie | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe idea of the city was much more alluring than the city itself on a rainy, unmoored day.
If we are unmoored from the Constitution, then what are we onto?
Radio’s Mark Levin Might Be the Most Powerful Conservative You Never Heard Of | David Freedlander | October 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMy trust in everything I thought I knew about myself came unmoored.
Speak, Faulty Memory: Why Memoir Writing Is Harder Than You Think | Dave Bry | April 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a result, our modern gun-rights ideology is often unmoored from any sense of corresponding civic obligation.
Gun-Rights Advocates Should Fear History of Second Amendment | Saul Cornell | December 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The flag-ship being now daily expected, we unmoored, and came down to Macào, awaiting her arrival in the outer Roads.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas | W. Hastings MacaulayAt last the welcome boat was seen coming from the shore; we unmoored, and went ahead for about an hour.
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' | Annie Allnut BrasseyThey went on board at once; and having unmoored, they sailed to the southeast after the falcon.
He presently reached the river, unmoored his boat, and with the aid of a strong current soon reached his home.
Memoirs of Orange Jacobs | Orange JacobsPerhaps, on the other hand, these wardens did not care to shout a final notice that the boat was now unmoored.
An Ambitious Woman | Edgar Fawcett
British Dictionary definitions for unmoor
/ (ʌnˈmʊə, -ˈmɔː) /
to weigh the anchor or drop the mooring of (a vessel)
(tr) to reduce the mooring of (a vessel) to one anchor
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