Synonyms of unmoor

unmoor

verb

as in to unfetter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unfetter
• liberate
• unshackle
• emancipate
• unchain
• enfranchise
• unbind
• uncage
• spring
• manumit
• unloose
• free
• loosen
• unlock
• unleash
• discharge
• loose
• unloosen
• uncork
• air
• express
• release
• vent
• take out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• regulate
• govern
• control
• restrain
• contain
• constrain
• hold
• inhibit
• check
• curb
• smother
• tame
• rein (in)
• confine
• bridle
• bind
• shackle
• handcuff
• enchain
• trammel
• manacle
• hamper
• fetter
• halter

Examples of unmoor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By Big Tech standards, Netflix has remained a strongly independent company over its 25-year run, spurning big acquisitions and splashy deals that could unmoor its roots. —Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 July 2022

The German Greens, now part of the country’s ruling coalition, lashed out at previous governments for not working faster to unmoor Germany’s economy from Russian fossil fuels. —Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022

When announced at Jackson Hole in August, the goal of the Fed’s new doctrine was actually to unmoor inflation expectations, which were purportedly running too low for too long. —Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 7 June 2021

But the overarching ambitions laid out by Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli, who’ve collaborated before on a handful of notable short films, unmoor the writer-directors from the heart of their subject. —K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2021