0 to unfasten a boat from something connecting it to land or to the bottom of the sea, a lake, a river, etc.:
1 to become less involved with, connected with or influenced by something, or to make someone or something do this:
A boatman is responsible for mooring and unmooring vessels.
Laughing, he unmoored the Orlouge and cast off.
His servant negligently, carelessly and wrongfully unmoored the sloop.
He embraced an activism that unmoored his party from its libertarian preference for small government.
Change does not mean that we must dump our friends, shift our tested relationships or unmoor our entire identities.
A linguistic mistake can be telling because it unmoors us from the subject about which we're trying to write.
Every now and then something comes along which is so bonkers and so unhinged that it unmoors itself from all cultural anchoring points.
