unchain

[uhn-cheyn]

verb (used with object)

1. to free from or as if from chains; set free.

unchain

/ ʌnˈtʃeɪn /

verb

1. to remove a chain or chains from

2. to set at liberty; make free

Other Word Forms

• unchainable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of unchain¹

First recorded in 1575–85; un- ² + chain

Example Sentences

Even Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal announced “the presidential id is now unchained” in an editorial on the Bolton raid.

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"She climbs the walls and runs away if we unchain her," Feda Mohammad explains.

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If California communities are to thrive in a future without more people, we’re going to have to figure out how to unchain ourselves from that idea.

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The dog calmed down as the woman unchained it and took it into the minibus.

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He was the rubber-limbed, unchained id of “Seinfeld,” the most popular sitcom of its era and a cultural phenomenon cultish in its fervor but too massive to really be considered a cult.

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Related Words

• acquit 
• clear 
• discharge 
• dismiss 
• extricate 
• pardon 
• parole 
• release 
• relieve 
• rescue 
• save