unchain
to free from or as if from chains; set free.
Origin of unchain
1Other words from unchain
- un·chain·a·ble, adjective
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How to use unchain in a sentence
He says we want to unchain the banks; no one wants to unchain the banks.
Rick Santorum: Here Are the Reasons That Romney Might Lose | Howard Kurtz | August 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe death of this infamous Gaudry, just though it was, will unchain against our city the fury of the clericals.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueSometimes she even constrained the English to unchain their prisoners themselves and set them free without ransom.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) | Anatole FranceMay not a modern Riquetti unchain so much, and set it drifting—which also shall be seen?
She saw that he would not break his promise, yet that her lightest word, her faintest signal, would unchain him.
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike | Charles King
Then his dark face lighted with one of the slow, whimsical smiles that transformed it—“unchain the ‘Spanish Bull-dog,’ feller!”
The Man from the Bitter Roots | Caroline Lockhart
British Dictionary definitions for unchain
/ (ʌnˈtʃeɪn) /
to remove a chain or chains from
to set at liberty; make free
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