unshackle

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To remove shackles from someone or something.
    — The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
  2. To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.
    — 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Poesy or Art 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.

词形变化

unshackles present,singular,third-person unshackling participle,present unshackled participle,past unshackled past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English shackle
English unshackle
From un- + shackle.
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