unshackle

verb

Etymology: 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.

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.”

   “The sooner the railway can unshackle itself from DfT the better.”

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.”