Definition of "unmoor" [un•moor]

• To release from or as if from moorings. (verb-transitive)
• Nautical To release (a ship) from all but one anchor. (verb-transitive)
• To cast off moorings. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The essential point, he said, is to "unmoor" criticism."
• "He's right, in the sense that the American Right began to unmoor itself from reality long before the Tea Party, or even Barack Obama's nomination."
• "One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it."