Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To release from or as if from chains or bonds; set free.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To free from chains, slavery, or restraint; let loose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To free from chains or slavery; to let loose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To remove chains from; to free; to liberate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the chains from
  • verb make free

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ chain.

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Examples

  • American Independent Business Alliance is urging everyone to "unchain" themselves this Saturday, Nov. 22, by shopping and doing business only with locally owned merchants.

    NewWest.Net All Headlines 2008

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Oh, ‘right’, you can unchain your mail-order bride at weekends.

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Diverse Team of Dudes 2009

  • At fifteen rods 'distance from the Indian position on the hill we did not dare unchain our wagons.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

  • Hope this was helpful, and we're glad to hear that you are soon to unchain yourself from the US rat-race and join the wonderful world of expat retirement.

    Holy Cow - Just two years away!! 2009

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