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Unanchor

Unanchor \Un*an"chor\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + anchor.] To loose from the anchor, as a ship.
--De Quincey.

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unanchor

vb. 1 To raise an anchor or to free a vessel from an anchor. 2 (context by extension English) To liberate.

Usage examples of "unanchor".

I was wondering if they were intelligent beings with a higher purposelike sending unanchored spirits on to their final destinations.

Once the bed-shelf was removed (and it would be easy to knock it off its support brackets, unanchored as it was), she would do a backover roll and plant her bare feet against the wall above the top of the headboard.

She could feel that minute shift again — that feel of the shelf starting to come unanchored at some point along Gerald's side.

The blow I'd taken would have flung an unanchored victim right out to the shaft's ragged lip and left him sprawled on its dizziest salience above the webbed abyss.

Then she unanchored herself and flew to another, seemingly randomly chosen member of her flock.

There were old rosebushes here, and while the roses both to the right and the left of the unanchored stretch of latticework were blooming in a lackadaisical way, those directly around and in front of it were skeletal and dead.

The whole long weight of the catwalk lurched and shivered as one end of it came unanchored from the walkway that circled the building's interior at this height.