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unlocking

verb , present participle of unlock

Synonyms and Antonyms of unlocking

to set free (from a state of being held in check)

that last insult unlocked her tongue, and she finally said what she really thought

Synonyms of unlocking

loosening, loosing, releasing, uncorking, unleashing, unloosening, unloosing

Words Related to unlocking

discharging, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, manumitting, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering, unmooring, unshackling

airing, expressing, taking out, venting

Phrases Synonymous with unlocking

Near Antonyms of unlocking

handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling (or trammelling)

binding, confining, enchaining, fettering

haltering, hampering

Antonyms of unlocking

bridling, checking, constraining, containing, controlling, curbing, governing, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, smothering, taming

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