Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To free from restriction or restraint.
  • transitive verb To free from a bridle.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To free from the bridle; let loose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To free from the bridle; to set loose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To remove the bridle (and other tack) from a horse or other animal.
  • verb To remove restraint.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the bridle from (a horse or mule)

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Examples

  • Mr. Assad got an unexpected U.N. reprieve and a green light to unbridle fully his killers.

    Obama Falls Into a U.N. Trap 2012

  • America's unbridle greed caused this world economic crisis.

    Obama calls for tighter global financial coordination 2009

  • While your local Congressional delegation decries the Supreme Court's decision to unbridle corporate campaign spending, Blair Horner -- the legislative director for NYPIRG -- doesn't think it will have much effect on Albany.

    Court Decision Shouldn't Affect State Races 2010

  • While you should unbridle your creativity in crafting your backstory, keep in mind that women find the following qualities most attractive: wealth, power, animal loverness.

    The PlayBook Barney Stinson 2010

  • While your local Congressional delegation decries the Supreme Court's decision to unbridle corporate campaign spending, Blair Horner -- the legislative director for NYPIRG -- doesn't think it will have much effect on Albany.

    Court Decision Shouldn't Affect State Races 2010

  • The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system.

    Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism 2009

  • The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system.

    Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism 2009

  • It does not take an economic professor to know that unbridle credit on either side is destined to fail.

    Morning Buzz: Throw US a lifeline 2008

  • Why this situation was let gone unbridle for more than eleven years and why party men were deployed?

    Who is Bush in Bengal ? 2007

  • _False lameness_ is an impediment in the gait not caused by structural or functional disturbances, but is brought on by conditions such as may result from the too rapid driving of an unbridle-wise colt over an irregular road surface, or by urging a horse to trot at a pace exceeding the normal gait of the animal's capacity, causing it to "crow-hop" or to lose balance in the stride.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

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