unmoor

un·moor

 (ŭn-mo͝or′)
v. un·moored, un·moor·ing, un·moors
v.tr.
1. To release from or as if from moorings.
2. Nautical To release (a ship) from all but one anchor.
v.intr.
To cast off moorings.
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unmoor

(ʌnˈmʊə; -ˈmɔː)
vb
1. (Nautical Terms) to weigh the anchor or drop the mooring of (a vessel)
2. (Nautical Terms) (tr) to reduce the mooring of (a vessel) to one anchor
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unmoor


Past participle: unmoored
Gerund: unmooring

Imperative
unmoor
unmoor
Present
I unmoor
you unmoor
he/she/it unmoors
we unmoor
you unmoor
they unmoor
Preterite
I unmoored
you unmoored
he/she/it unmoored
we unmoored
you unmoored
they unmoored
Present Continuous
I am unmooring
you are unmooring
he/she/it is unmooring
we are unmooring
you are unmooring
they are unmooring
Present Perfect
I have unmoored
you have unmoored
he/she/it has unmoored
we have unmoored
you have unmoored
they have unmoored
Past Continuous
I was unmooring
you were unmooring
he/she/it was unmooring
we were unmooring
you were unmooring
they were unmooring
Past Perfect
I had unmoored
you had unmoored
he/she/it had unmoored
we had unmoored
you had unmoored
they had unmoored
Future
I will unmoor
you will unmoor
he/she/it will unmoor
we will unmoor
you will unmoor
they will unmoor
Future Perfect
I will have unmoored
you will have unmoored
he/she/it will have unmoored
we will have unmoored
you will have unmoored
they will have unmoored
Future Continuous
I will be unmooring
you will be unmooring
he/she/it will be unmooring
we will be unmooring
you will be unmooring
they will be unmooring
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been unmooring
you have been unmooring
he/she/it has been unmooring
we have been unmooring
you have been unmooring
they have been unmooring
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been unmooring
you will have been unmooring
he/she/it will have been unmooring
we will have been unmooring
you will have been unmooring
they will have been unmooring
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been unmooring
you had been unmooring
he/she/it had been unmooring
we had been unmooring
you had been unmooring
they had been unmooring
Conditional
I would unmoor
you would unmoor
he/she/it would unmoor
we would unmoor
you would unmoor
they would unmoor
Past Conditional
I would have unmoored
you would have unmoored
he/she/it would have unmoored
we would have unmoored
you would have unmoored
they would have unmoored
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Translations

unmoor

vtilosmachen
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Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
Wind and space were banished; the world floated like an apple in a tub, and the mind of man, which had been unmoored also, once more attached itself to the old beliefs.
Provincial railroad officials said the removal of the 600 nuts and bolts left 125 meters (400 feet) of track unmoored. Some analysts said that if the thieves were interested in the nuts and bolts and not sabotage, they would have tackled every third or fourth bolt and not an entire string that would unmoor a length of track.
In truth, I don't want to win my arguments with those guys and unmoor them from the rock they have based their life on.
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But they did not tell the child the truth about who she was, leaving her feeling so unmoored that a wedge was driven between Betty and her father which endured until the day he died.
A capitalist system that is disconnected from most people and unmoored from the territories in which it operates is no longer acceptable.
But his paranoia is unmoored from the current political climate, which makes the film's final veer back to Ed's obsession seem all the more forced and hollow.
In the Srikakulam district, where around 20,000 people have been evacuated, thatched houses collapsed and fishing boats left unmoored were sliced into shards.
And he added "analysts must not be complacent about inflation expectations becoming unmoored, whether at too high or too low a level." There have been "worrying signs" of of a deterioration of measure of longer-run inflation expectations in recent years" and he, along with the rest of the FOMC, remains worried that the "persistent undershoot" on the inflation target risks undermining the 2% anchor.