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Etymology

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un- +‎ imprison

Verb

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unimprison (third-person singular simple present unimprisons, present participle unimprisoning, simple past and past participle unimprisoned)

  1. (transitive) To release from prison; to free.
    • 1985, Seymour Bernard Sarason, Caring and Compassion in Clinical Practice:
      They became activists and advocates, largely unaware of the possibility that, in advocating more of the same services for heretofore underserved populations, they might be exposing unwittingly the cultural parochialism from which they sought to unimprison themselves.