unhobble

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ hobble.

Verb

unhobble (third-person singular simple present unhobbles, present participle unhobbling, simple past and past participle unhobbled) (transitive)

1. To remove hobbles from (a horse).
2. (figurative) To unhinder, remove obstacles.
   • 2024, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness‎, page 32:

     (It also highlights the central role of algorithmic progress: the ~0.5 OOMs/year of compute efficiencies, already significant, are only part of the story, and put together with unhobbling algorithmic progress overall is maybe even a majority of the gains on the current trend.)