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unhobbles

unhobbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about unhobbles

What is unhobbles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unhobbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unhobble.

Words near unhobbles in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhobbles (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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