disenthralled

verb

variants also disenthraled
past tense of disenthrall
as in freed
to set free (as from slavery or confinement) we must disenthrall ourselves from time-honored ways of doing things, or we will never progress as a society

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenthralled
  1. freed
  2. liberated
  3. rescued
  4. released
  5. saved
  6. emancipated
  7. loosened
Verb
  • Those two freed a third person, who was only partially buried, and the three were able to dig out three other skiers.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Vlasova, who during her years in Russian detention had watched countless times as others were freed and she was left behind, wept.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of freed
Verb
  • Indeed, by then, the hypnotic spell had been cast across all of Europe, including on those liberated from the drab tyrannies of actually existing socialism.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • He was born in western Ukraine and attended a military school in Kharkiv – the city liberated by Ukrainian forces in 2022 after a brutal Russian occupation early in the war.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • Meghan personally called animal rights attorney Shannon Keith, who runs the Beagle Freedom Project, after hearing about 4,000 beagles being rescued from overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the Envigo breeding and research plant in Virginia.
    — Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Twelve people were rescued, and divers later located the woman and the infant in the water, police said.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of rescued
Verb
  • Along for the ride in pouches behind its mandibles are spores of a fungus that are released as the insect chews through the wood.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Inspector General Eliot Prescott released a 26-page report detailing the findings of his investigation into the death of 33-year-old Gamboy Guaranda at the New Haven Correctional Center on April 16.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of released
Verb
  • Sébastien Salles-Lamonge, Mora, and Benjamín Galdames converted their penalties for San Luis before Otero saved Aldo Cruz’s shot to set up Marín for the winner.
    — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The bravery of everyone who rushed to help was what saved the lives of both man and baby.
    — Rocio Munoz, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of saved
Verb
  • In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.
    — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026
  • The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
Definition of emancipated
Verb
  • Each era's binding constraint, once loosened, ceased to be where advantage lived, and the frontier moved.
    — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Once the ground is cleared and loosened, work in a layer of topsoil, compost, or fertilizer before laying down seed.
    — Amanda Tust, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of loosened
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