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English
Etymology
From un- + fetter.
Pronunciation
Verb
unfetter (third-person singular simple present unfetters, present participle unfettering, simple past and past participle unfettered)
- (transitive) 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
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