unchain
verb (used with object)
to free from or as if from chains; set free.
had unchained
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past perfectof unchain.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
The catastrophe of the revolution had unchained a whole whirlwind of antagonisms.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
A dark policeman, wearing red epaulettes and a dress sword, watched them for a while and then went away to remonstrate with a young man who had unchained his dog.
From The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The passions and the prejudices which he had unchained in Languedoc had grown beyond his control, and the Poor Catholics disappeared in the tumult.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
But then it began to fall under suspicion, for that was the time when Luther had unchained the great struggle.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
