She managed to unbind her hands.
a newly elected democratic government whose first act was to unbind the nation's vast horde of political prisoners
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This work unbinds the body from centuries of Western imagery, freeing it from representation and opening it to abstraction.—Mame-Diarra Niang, Artforum, 2 Nov. 2025 But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025 The blazers who run the major championships have not yet commissioned sculptures of these two women, who so unbound their sport and gave the gift of professional aspiration to so many.—Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023 The stars will be long gone before our galaxy unbinds itself.—Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for unbind
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of unbind was
before the 12th century
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