unshackle

verb2

1. •
   To remove shackles from someone or something.

   • The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
2. •
   To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.

   • Painting was, as it were, a new art, and being unshackled by old models it chose its own subjects, and took an eagle’s flight. — 1818