Definition of "unmoors" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unmoor. (verb)

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• "It looks smart as a curtain before the show begins with Connick walking out through a giant keyhole so he can presumably unlock the unconscious but ultimately it unmoors the show."
• "Powell posits that in poetry "often it's the inexact, the awful, the mistaken linguistic turn that manages to say the right thing because it unmoors us from our perceived relationship to the subject about which we're trying to write.""
• "It unmoors the story from geography — from history even."