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unfettering

verb , present participle of unfetter

Synonyms and Antonyms of unfettering

to set free (as from slavery or confinement)

authorities eventually unfettered the menagerie of wild animals that had been kept illegally as pets

Synonyms of unfettering

discharging, disenthralling (also disenthraling), emancipating, enfranchising, enlarging, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, manumitting, releasing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining

Words Related to unfettering

bailing (out), delivering, paroling, ransoming, redeeming, rescuing, saving

disembarrassing, disencumbering, disengaging, disentangling, extricating

Phrases Synonymous with unfettering

Near Antonyms of unfettering

handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling (or trammelling)

committing, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, locking (up)

conquering, enslaving, subduing, subjugating

Antonyms of unfettering

binding, confining, enchaining, fettering, restraining

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