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unshackles

unshackles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about unshackles

What is unshackles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unshackles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unshackle.

Words near unshackles in the dictionary

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

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