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third-person singular simple present unshackles, present participle unshackling, simple past and past participle unshackled
To remove shackles from someone or something. quotations examples
The sooner the railway can unshackle itself from DfT the better.
2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Wireless coverage leaves us hanging on our telephones”, in RAIL, number 965, page 43
To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power. quotations examples
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