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UNBIND
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Irregular inflected form: unbound
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they unbind ... he / she / it unbinds
Past simple: unbound
Past participle: unbound
-ing form: unbinding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Untie or unfasten
Example:
unbind the feet of this poor woman
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "unbind" is one way to...):
detach (cause to become detached or separated; take off)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
bind (make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope)
Context examples:
The scene-painter was gone, having spoilt only the floor of one room, ruined all the coachman's sponges, and made five of the under-servants idle and dissatisfied; and Sir Thomas was in hopes that another day or two would suffice to wipe away every outward memento of what had been, even to the destruction of every unbound copy of Lovers' Vows in the house, for he was burning all that met his eye.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This they made me swear to do, and then they unbound me, only fastening one of my legs with a chain, near my bed, and placed a sentry at my door with his piece charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead if I attempted my liberty.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
