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unshackled

unshackled is the simple past and past participle of unshackle.

Meaning of unshackle

Verb

unshackle (third-person singular simple present unshackles, present participle unshackling, simple past and past participle unshackled)

  1. To remove shackles from someone or something.
    • The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
    Synonyms:
    unchain
  2. To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.
    • 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

Adjective

unshackled (not comparable)

  1. Not shackled.
    • Near-synonyms: shackleless, unfettered, fetterless; unmanacled, unhandcuffed

Synonyms of unshackled

Words formed from unshackled

Questions about unshackled

What does unshackled mean?
Unshackled means not shackled.
What is unshackled the simple past and past participle of?
Unshackled is the simple past and past participle of unshackle.
What part of speech is unshackled?
Unshackled is an adjective.

Words near unshackled in the dictionary

  1. unsexually
  2. unsexy
  3. unsgd.
  4. unshabby
  5. unshackle
  6. unshackled
  7. unshackledness
  8. unshackles
  9. unshackling
  10. unshacklings
  11. unshade

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