Verb
unshackle (unshackles, present participle unshackling; past and past participle unshackled)
- To remove shackles from someone or something.
- The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
- To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.
- 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Poesy or Art
- Painting was, as it were, a new art, and being unshackled by old models it chose its own subjects, and took an eagle’s flight.
- 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Poesy or Art
- (to remove shackles) unchain
- French: déchainer
- French: émanciper
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