Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
acquittance | payment of, or release from, debt; (verb, Shakesp.) to acquit or clear. |
debarrass | (Arch.) to disembarrass, disentangle. |
deoppilate | to free from obstruction. |
discage | to uncage. |
disculpate | to free from blame. |
discumber | (Arch.) to free of encumbrance. |
disembrangle | (Obs.) to free from dispute. |
disembroil | to disentangle; to free from perplexity. |
disenchain | to free from restraint. |
disenchant | to free from enchantment. |
disenchantingly | (Adv.) DISENCHANTING. |
disenclose | to free from being inclosed. |
disenslave | to free from bondage or slavery. |
disenthral | to release from a state of enthralment. |
disenthrall | to release from a state of enthralment. |
disenthrallment | the act of disenthralling. |
disespouse | (Milton) to release from espousal or plighted faith. |
disimmure | to liberate; to release from walls. |
disinthral | to release from a state of enthralment. |
disyoke | to unyoke. |
exeem | (Scots) to release or exempt. |
exeme | (Scots) to release or exempt. |
losed | (Spenser) loosed. |
losen | (Spenser) to loosen. |
lowse | (Scots) loose (verb) to loosen |
manumit | to release from slavery. |
manumitter | one who manumits, releases from slavery. |
prerelease | to release in advance. |
quietus | (Lat.) a final stroke that settles something; death; a release from a duty or debt. |
releasable | that may be released. |
release | to set free. |
releasee | one to whom a release is given. |
releaser | something or someone that releases. |
releasor | one by whom a release is given. |
rerelease | to release again. |
rewild | to release (an animal) from captivity into the wild to return (land) to a natural, undeveloped state. |
unbag | to remove from a bag. |
unbale | to remove from a bale. |
unbelt | to loosen the belt. |
unbind | to free from bindings. |
unbolt | to open by withdrawing a bolt. |
unbottle | to allow out of a bottle. |
unbounded | not bounded. |
unboundedly | (Adv.) UNBOUNDED. |
unbraid | to separate the strands of. |
unbrake | to release a brake. |
unbuckle | to loosen a buckle. |
uncage | to take out of a cage. |
unchain | to free by removing a chain. |
uncharm | to release from a charm or fascination. |
unchoke | to free from obstruction. |
unclamp | to release from a clamp. |
unclasp | to release from a clasp. |
unclench | to open from a clenched position. |
unclip | to remove a clip (a fastening device) from. |
unclog | to unblock. |
uncoil | to release from a coiled position. |
uncombine | (Dickens) to separate. |
unconfine | to free from confinement. |
unconfinedly | (Adv.) UNCONFINED. |
uncord | to release from cords, as, to uncord a package. |
uncork | to draw the cork. |
uncouple | to disconnect. |
uncuff | to remove a cuff. |
undam | to free from a dam or other obstruction. |
unfasten | to release from fastenings. |
unfetter | to release from fetters. |
unfix | to unfasten. |
unglue | to release from a state of being glued. |
ungum | to unstick. |
ungyve | to remove the fetters from. |
unhand | to remove one's hands from, release. |
unharness | to release from a harness. |
unhasp | to unloose the hasp of; to unclose. |
unhitch | to free from being hitched, as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace. |
unhook | to remove from a hook. |
unjam | to free from jamming. |
unlace | to unfasten the laces of. |
unlash | to loose, as that which is lashed or tied down. |
unlatch | to undo the latch of. |
unleash | to let off a leash. |
unlink | to unfasten the links (connecting devices) of. |
unlock | to unfasten the lock of. |
unloose | to loosen. |
unloosen | to loosen. |
unmanacle | to free from manacles. |
unmesh | to free from meshes. |
unnail | to unfasten by removing nails. |
unpack | to remove the contents of. |
unpeg | to remove a peg or pegs from. |
unpen | to release from a pen or from confinement. |
unpin | to remove the pins from. |
unreave | to unwind; to disentangle; to loose. |
unreel | to unwind from a reel. |
unrope | to free from a rope. |
unshackle | to release from shackles. |
unshift | to release the shift key on a typewriter. |
unsling | to release from a sling. |
unsnarl | to disentangle. |
unsocket | to loose or take from a socket. |
unspar | to take the spars from. |
unstrap | to remove a strap from. |
unstring | to remove the strings from. |
unstrung | (PaP.) UNSTRING, to remove the strings from. |
untackle | to free from tackle. |
untether | to release from a tether. |
untie | to free from something that ties. |
untrace | to loose from traces. |
untruss | to remove the truss from. |
unwire | to take the wire from. |
unyoke | to release from a yoke. |
unzip | to open the zipper of. |