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unchain
verb as in disburden
verb as in discharge
verb as in disembarrass
verb as in emancipate
Weak matches
verb as in free
Strong matches
verb as in liberate
verb as in loose/loosen
Weak matches
- alleviate
- become unfastened
- break up
- deliver
- detach
- discharge
- disconnect
- disengage
- disenthrall
- disjoin
- ease
- ease off
- emancipate
- extricate
- free
- let go
- let out
- liberate
- manumit
- mitigate
- relax
- release
- separate
- slacken
- unbar
- unbolt
- unbuckle
- unbutton
- unclasp
- undo
- unfasten
- unfix
- unhitch
- unhook
- unlace
- unlash
- unlatch
- unleash
- unlock
- unloose
- unpin
- unscrew
- unsnap
- unstick
- unstrap
- untie
- untighten
- work free
- work loose
verb as in loosen
Strong matches
verb as in manumit
Strong matches
verb as in ransom
verb as in redeem
Weak matches
verb as in release
Strong matches
verb as in save
Example Sentences
He says we want to unchain the banks; no one wants to unchain the banks.
The death of this infamous Gaudry, just though it was, will unchain against our city the fury of the clericals.
Sometimes she even constrained the English to unchain their prisoners themselves and set them free without ransom.
May not a modern Riquetti unchain so much, and set it drifting—which also shall be seen?
She saw that he would not break his promise, yet that her lightest word, her faintest signal, would unchain him.
Then his dark face lighted with one of the slow, whimsical smiles that transformed it—“Unchain the ‘Spanish Bull-dog,’ feller!”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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