Unbind
[ʌn'baɪnd]
Definition
(verb.) untie or unfasten; 'unbind the feet of this poor woman'.
Inputed by Ethel--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.
Edited by Gene
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Untie, unloose, loose, unfasten.[2]. Unchain, set free, set at liberty.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Set_free,[See INFIDEL]
Typist: Shelley
Definition
v.t. to remove a band from: to loose: to set free.
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Examples
- We never know how deep, how wide it is, till misery begins to unbind her clouds, and fill it with rushing blackness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To him she imparted those mysterious intimations which the soul feels, as the cords begin to unbind, ere it leaves its clay forever. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now nearly every reading citizen of every village has piled up in some corner of his house a better supply than that, of bound or unbound literature, and of a far superior quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- One day at an auction-room he secured a stack of twenty unbound volumes of the North American Review for two dollars. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After a blank, I found that I was lying unbound, on the floor, in the same place, with my head on some one's knee. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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