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UNBRIDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbridle mean? 

UNBRIDLE (verb)
  The verb UNBRIDLE has 1 sense:

1. remove the bridle from (a horse or mule)play

  Familiarity information: UNBRIDLE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNBRIDLE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they unbridle  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it unbridles  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: unbridled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: unbridled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: unbridling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the bridle from (a horse or mule)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "unbridle" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

bridle (put a bridle on)


 Context examples 


And that's a worry, because unbridled microglial activity has been linked to brain diseases like Alzheimer's and other forms of neurodegeneration.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He opened his eyes, and into them came the unbridled anger of a kidnapped king.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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