Meaning & use
Untethering
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Releasing something from a rope, chain, or other restraint; freeing from a fixed connection.
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She spent the morning untethering the goats from their stakes in the field.
The company is untethering its software from a single operating system.
A note on using this word
Beyond its literal use with ropes and animals, untethering is now widely used figuratively in technology and business to describe removing dependencies.
Words with a similar meaning
unleashingfreeing
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Words with an opposite meaning
tetheringbinding
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