unbind
verb (used with object)
to release from bonds or restraint, as a prisoner; free.
has unbound
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present perfectof unbind (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I think she had made up her mind to keep utter silence, but some horror connected with Dulce's hasty remark has unbound her lips.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
The continued exploration of musical means has given his personality increasingly free play, and has unbound him.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
It would be juster to say, rather, that he has recalled in his music the very life and presence of the Gaelic prime—that he has "unbound the Island harp."
From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman
For earth | her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self ín self steepèd and pashed—qúite Disremembering, dísmembering | àll now.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
