Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To release from or as if from moorings.
- intransitive verb Nautical To release (a ship) from all but one anchor.
- intransitive verb To cast off moorings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, to bring to the state of riding with a single anchor, after having been moored by two or more cables.
- To loose from anchorage or from moorings, literally or figuratively.
- To loose from moorings; weigh anchor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.
- transitive verb To loose from anchorage. See
moor , v. t. - intransitive verb To weigh anchor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
unfix orunsecure (amoored boat ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The essential point, he said, is to "unmoor" criticism.
Original Short Stories — Volume 01 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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The essential point, he said, is to "unmoor" criticism.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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The essential point, he said, is to "unmoor" criticism.
Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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He's right, in the sense that the American Right began to unmoor itself from reality long before the Tea Party, or even Barack Obama's nomination.
Carl Pope: The Party of Crazy Carl Pope 2011
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One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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I would prefer this to a situation in which the EPA or the judiciary decides to unmoor themselves from Congress and start making environmental law sua sponte.
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One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Hurricane Irene's strong winds unmoor a boat and cause flooding as the storm makes landfall in North Carolina.
Widespread Power Outages Continue Cassandra Sweet 2011
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