DISENTHRALLED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

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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Sullivan's brother-in-law eventually freed the bear trapped in the Toyota.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Sullivan’s brother-in-law eventually freed the bear trapped in the Toyota.

— Brittany Peterson, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of freed

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As a young medic in the US, Soldner saw those drawings when his division liberated the camp.

— Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Chad Tracy is an attention-to-detail kind of guy, which helps explain why the Boston Red Sox liberated him from Triple-A obscurity in April to be their interim manager after Alex Cora was let go.

— Steve Buckley, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of liberated

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Schiano rescued the program from irrelevance, but modest respectability might be all Rutgers can afford this season — if that.

— Manny Navarro, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Images of the man and woman being rescued were posted by Nepal’s Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on Saturday, confirming the rescues.

— Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of rescued

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Apple has released new devices, including the company’s first foldable phone — and iPhone18 in new colors.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Verbruggen illustrated his strengths in possession in the early stages against Leeds with a raking pass that released Maxim De Cuyper one-v-one against Jayden Bogle.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of released

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Winter was legally emancipated and declared an adult at age 17 in 2015.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of emancipated

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