Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To loose from anchorage.
- To become loose from anchorage; become detached.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To loose from the anchor, as a ship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To raise an
anchor or tofree a vessel from an anchor. - verb by extension To
liberate .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
un- + anchor
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Examples
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The efforts to unanchor us from our history, its best and worst elements, to return us to a tabula rasa where a new Canada was to be created, seemed to most conservatives to be a success.
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See the problem is, if you give someone rights to fuel the tower, you also give them rights to unanchor your Supercap pos, and run off with a hundred bil worth of corporate tears.
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