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unhobbled

unhobbled is the simple past and past participle of unhobble.

Meaning of unhobble

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

Adjective

unhobbled (not comparable)

  1. Not hobbled.

Questions about unhobbled

What does unhobbled mean?
Unhobbled means not hobbled.
What is unhobbled the simple past and past participle of?
Unhobbled is the simple past and past participle of unhobble.
What part of speech is unhobbled?
Unhobbled is an adjective.

Words near unhobbled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhobbled (page history and authors); unhobble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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