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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
untether

1775, from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + tether (v.). Related: Untethered; untethering.

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untether

vb. (context transitive English) To undo by removing a tether.

Usage examples of "untether".

She watched the plainsman untether one of the two draft horses that trailed behind Meric.

It changed in sped-up corrasion, in the buckling of tectonics at some psychotic rate as if time was untethered from its rules.

Leonov and Aldrin, coming untethered from their respective spacecraft while in orbit had been a real worry.

While Ellidyr and Adaon hurriedly untethered the animals, Taran and the bard packed the store of weapons.

He seemed almost gleeful, as Taran untethered Melynlas and led the horse from behind the screen of brambles.

Fflewddur and Gurgi untethered Llyan and the two steeds and reluctantly withdrew in the opposite direction.

Raraku had known many such storms, yet it weathered them as it did all things, with untethered skin of sand and the solid truth of stone.

He did something to his belt and his feet left the ground, and he soared like an untethered cloud.

Yet I was free as an untethered cloud In the great space between the sky and sea, And might have blown before the wind of joy Like a bright banner woven by the sun.

He felt remarkably free, untethered by his apprenticeship to Figgis or his mild deformities.

He joined the untethered physician and both men followed the descending trail of evacuating flotsam.

Her eyes never meeting mine, Vron sat up and full-throatedly untethered her hair.

When Tom untethered her, Andromeda pushed past him and walked the length of the scythe of fire.

The only man-made light was at least a dozen miles away, hotels along the Atlantic, their lights seemingly waiting to be untethered so as to float heavenward.

Like an untethered kite, this way and that, trailing streamers of blood.