Definition of "unmooring" [unmooring]

• Present participle of unmoor. (verb)

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• "The Cowboy finished unmooring the boat, while the Kahuna headed to the cabin."
• "But what we saw since the 1980s was the unmooring of the financial sector from the rest of the economy."
• "What is required for works of literature to be accepted as the kind of distinctive activity their authors conceive them to be is for everyone involved -- readers, critics, writers themselves -- to acknowledge that in this particular instance, the exercise of the imagination we call fiction or poetry, language has a license to wander where it will, if necessary unmooring itself completely from the constraints of representing reality in its most familiar forms."