单词 | unshackle |
释义 | unshacklev. 1. a. transitive. To free from a shackle or fetter. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from restraint ungyve1531 unlock1531 unbuckle1548 unpen1561 unmanacle1582 unmuzzlec1585 unseal1589 dischain1603 unshackle1611 to let out1613 uncage1620 unfreeze1637 loosen1645 unconfine1651 unsequester1664 unbay1687 uncurb1729 unbind1735 unleash1822 disenchain1853 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from confinement > free from specific type of bonds unfetter1362 untiec1450 ungyve1531 unsnare1550 unmanacle1582 unhalter1584 uncollar1611 uniron1611 unshackle1611 dismanacle1628 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Destraver, to vnshackle, vngyue. 1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 129 But to doe it [sc. overcome his enemy] when he is shackled and bound, without unshackling or unbinding is very much. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 518 Unshackle his Nature, and turn his Desires loose, and then you shall see, what he will choose. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 76 The patriot bands, that..unshackled nations. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To unshackle the hands. b. To untie, detach. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] undoc1275 unwork1548 ungluea1617 unhinge1655 disattach1658 disengage1662 untacka1677 unglutinate1683 detach1686 unshackle1694 unship1793 unhitch1876 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Rudens iv. iii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 195 Only t'unshackle your rope, that hangs at your heels. 2. Nautical. To remove a shackle from (a chain, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > detach in other specific manner unnaila1400 to pull offa1425 nipc1450 unlink1569 unhook1611 unhinge1616 unsling1630 to pinch off1654 untack1693 unstring1697 peel1787 unbolt1793 unthong1829 unswing1835 unshackle1840 unsnap1862 unbraze1898 delink1899 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vii. 56 We hove in upon our chain, and after stoppering and unshackling it again and again,..we at length tipped our anchor. 1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. ix. 97 Unshackling the anchor, I put the shackle in my pocket. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1611 |
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