unchain

[ uhn-cheyn ]

verb (used with object)

1. to free from or as if from chains; set free.

unchain

/ ʌnˈtʃeɪn /

verb

1. to remove a chain or chains from
2. to set at liberty; make free

Other Words From

• un·chaina·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of unchain¹

First recorded in 1575–85; un- ² + chain

Example Sentences

“The place smells of urine and excrement because some toilets don’t work, and people who are chained to chairs sometimes pee on the floor because the deputies won’t unchain them.”

From Los Angeles Times

This freedom refrain—to unchain sexuality from unnecessary restrictions, to liberate love from restraints that impede the good that sexuality makes possible—resounds from biblical Corinth, to Renaissance Germany, to nineteenth-century Oneida, to 1967 San Francisco when one hundred thousand hippies gathered for the "Summer of Love," to the American college hookup scene.

From Salon

Later, Buterin retweeted an announcement from Unchain.fund, aimed at humanitarian relief.

From The Verge

Amazon has been delivering a steady supply of books to unchain our imaginative lockdown, but they have arrived in the same packaging that could just as well bring replacement light bulbs or moth traps.

From New York Times

“We asked him more than once to unchain her, not to put her in a cage, but he constantly refused.”

From New York Times

Related Words

• acquit
• clear
• discharge
• dismiss
• extricate
• pardon
• parole
• release
• relieve
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• save