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unimprison en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + imprison.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To release from prison; to free.
    • They became activists and advocates, largely unaware of the possibility that, in advocating more of the same services for heretofore underserved populations, they might be exposing unwittingly the cultural parochialism from which they sought to unimprison themselves. 1985, Seymour Bernard Sarason, Caring and Compassion in Clinical Practice:

Forms

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unimprisoned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unimprisoned Tense=Past lexicographic
unimprisons Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unimprisoning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic