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unhobble

unhobble verb: to remove hobbles from (a horse).

Verb

unhobble (third-person singular simple present unhobbles, present participle unhobbling, simple past and past participle unhobbled)

  1. (transitive) To remove hobbles from (a horse).
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To unhinder, remove obstacles.
    • (It also highlights the central role of algorithmic progress: the ~0.5 OOMs/year of compute efficiencies, already significant, are only part of the story, and put together with unhobbling algorithmic progress overall is maybe even a majority of the gains on the current trend.)2024, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness, page 32

Forms of unhobble

third-person singular presentunhobbles
present participleunhobbling
past participleunhobbled
pastunhobbled

Origin of unhobble

From un- + hobble.

Questions about unhobble

What does unhobble mean?
Unhobble means to remove hobbles from (a horse).
What part of speech is unhobble?
Unhobble is a verb.
What is the past tense of unhobble?
The past tense of unhobble is unhobbled.

Words near unhobble in the dictionary

  1. unhoax
  2. unhoaxable
  3. unhoaxed
  4. unhoaxes
  5. unhoaxing
  6. unhobble
  7. unhobbled
  8. unhobbles
  9. unhobbling
  10. unhock
  11. unhocked

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