unshackle

== English == === Etymology === From un- + shackle. === Verb === unshackle (third-person singular simple present unshackles, present participle unshackling, simple past and past participle unshackled) To remove shackles from someone or something. 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (to remove shackles): unchain ==== Translations ====