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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmuzzled

c.1600, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of muzzle (v.), or past participle of unmuzzle (v.), which is attested from c.1600.

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unmuzzled
  1. Not wearing a muzzle. v

  2. (en-past of: unmuzzle)

Usage examples of "unmuzzled".

The dog was unmuzzled and let into the pit through a wooden gate that was shut tight behind 82 KEN FOLLETT him.

Barely leashed flenx, unmuzzled now, strained against taut chains, snapping their jaws inches from me, their headhorns stabbing the air.

Their teeth are formidable, however, for all the small size, and grole growers have terrible tales to tell about being caught inside a nut with unmuzzled groles.

The stout gray wolf, sitting on its haunches with its great red tongue lolling out of its unmuzzled jaws, growled deeply as its gray-robed handler suggestively lifted its silver chain.

As for me, it has been a source of perplexity for years: so much so, that I began to wonder at times whether I was not under some mental delusion about it, until the strange theatrical displays, of the last few months, for which I was more or less prepared, led so many to use their eyes, unmuzzled by brass or glass, for a time.

He lets the brutes run the woods unmuzzled at night to guard us from the supposed danger.

Undoubtedly the rifle was in the hovel, but to search there with the brutes unmuzzled meant a horrible death.

Wonder, no one but the Viceroy, who said plaintively that he feared being left alone with unmuzzled autocrats like the great Mellishe of Madras.