Free
Free verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).
Tether
Tether verb - Tie with a tether.
Common collocations
| someone | free someone | tether someone |
Both words in one sentence
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Meaningful Background Event: As Kowalski struggles to free Stone from the claw arm, Shariff suddenly snaps to one side on his tether as he's struck by the chunk of space debris that kills him.
Source: Film / Gravity
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Tether and Free. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/free/tether
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