unmoor en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + moor.
Meanings
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(transitive) To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).
“It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”
2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times:
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(figuratively, transitive) To set free or loose.
When oblivion finally unmoors us.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93:
- (intransitive) To weigh anchor.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unmooring | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unmoored | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unmoored | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unmoors | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |