Free and Shackles

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Free verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).

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Shackles is an antonym for free.

Nearby Words: freely, freed

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Free is an antonym for shackles in restrain topic.

Caliborn chewed off his own leg to free himself from his shackles when he started his game session.

Source: Scars Are Forever
Spector taunts her "moral relativism" and claims to be free from the shackles of moral conventions.

Source: Series / The Fall
In El Goonish Shive, when Grace breaks free of her shackles Damien had her in she destroys the chair she was sitting in in the process.

Source: Bench Breaker

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