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unimprison

unimprison verb: to release from prison; to free.

Verb

unimprison (third-person singular simple present unimprisons, present participle unimprisoning, simple past and past participle unimprisoned)

  1. (transitive) To release from prison; to free.
    • They became activists and advocates, largely unaware of the possibility that, in advocating more of the same services for heretofore underserved populations, they might be exposing unwittingly the cultural parochialism from which they sought to unimprison themselves.1985, Seymour Bernard Sarason, Caring and Compassion in Clinical Practice

Forms of unimprison

third-person singular presentunimprisons
present participleunimprisoning
past participleunimprisoned
pastunimprisoned

Origin of unimprison

From un- + imprison.

Questions about unimprison

What does unimprison mean?
Unimprison means to release from prison; to free.
What part of speech is unimprison?
Unimprison is a verb.
What is the past tense of unimprison?
The past tense of unimprison is unimprisoned.

Words near unimprison in the dictionary

  1. unimprest
  2. unimprint
  3. unimprinted
  4. unimprinting
  5. unimprints
  6. unimprison
  7. unimprisonable
  8. unimprisoned
  9. unimprisoning
  10. unimprisons
  11. unimpropriate

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