unfetter

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fetter.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. 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

Translations

to unchain, to free

• German: entfesseln (de), befreien (de)
• Polish: wyswobadzać impf, wyswabadzać impf, wyswobodzić pf