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third-person singular simple present unmoors, present participle unmooring, simple past and past participle unmoored
(transitive) To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat). quotations examples
“It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”
2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times
(transitive, figurative) To set free or loose. quotations examples
When oblivion finally unmoors us.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93
(intransitive) To weigh anchor. examples