unfetter

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fetter.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʌnˈfɛtɚ/, [ʌnˈfɛɾɚ]
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  • Rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)

Verb

unfetter (third-person singular simple present unfetters, present participle unfettering, simple past and past participle unfettered)

  1. (transitive) To release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free.
    • 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
      He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition

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