transitive. To free from gyves or fetters. Also figurative.

transitive. figurative. To cause to open or become receptive; to allow to reveal what lies within. Also occasionally intransitive.

figurative. To free or separate from; to open up, display; to detach, break off.

transitive. To release (esp. an animal) from a pen or other enclosure. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

transitive. To free by removing or releasing manacles or handcuffs. Also figurative.

transitive. To free from a constraint, esp. a restriction on free speech. Cf. muzzle, n.1 3.

figurative. To free from some constraining influence; to allow free action to.

transitive. To release from (or as if from) a chain; to unchain. Chiefly in past participle.

transitive. To free from a shackle or fetter. Also figurative.

To set free to (some action), to let loose upon; to allow to go forth freely to (an object). Obsolete.

transitive. To let or take out of a cage. Also figurative.

figurative, spec. (in later use) to make (assets, credits, etc.) realizable; to remove restrictions or rigid control from.

transferred and figurative. Now only in the phrase to loosen (a person's) tongue, and in certain poetical or rhetorical uses (? after Shelley).

transitive. To release from restraint; to give free course to.

(un-, prefix1.)

transitive. To free from barrier or restraint.

transitive. To free (a horse) from a curb. Also figurative.

transferred. To loosen, open up or out, set free, detach, etc.

transitive. To let loose (a powerful or violent force); to allow free rein to (an emotion, etc.); to restrain no longer, to release.

transitive. To set free from chains or restraint; to reverse the process of enchaining.