ungrounding
Severing electrical safety
Ungrounding is the act of removing a grounding—typically lifting a punishment that had restricted someone's freedom or activities.
A parent who grounded a teenager might later unground them for good behavior: You're ungrounded, but don't stay out past midnight.
The word also appears in electrical and psychological contexts, meaning to disconnect from ground or to destabilize someone's sense of rootedness.
Causing loss of stability
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- disconnectionState of being severed
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
untethering · floating · derealization · anxiety · overwhelm · scattered · spacey · uncentered
Release from constraint
- unshacklingRemoving fetters or constraints
- releaseTo let go
- unfetteringRemoving shackles or constraints
- unbindingAct of freeing
unleashing · emancipation · detachment · loosening · untying · unchaining · escape
State of being severed
- uprootingExtracting from the earth
- imbalanceLack of proportion
- disharmonyAbsence of agreement
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
floating · untethered · unanchored · rootlessness · disembodiment · astral · transcendence · otherworldly
destabilization
Causing loss of stability
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- disconnectionState of being severed
disorientation · untethering · floating · derealization · anxiety · overwhelm · scattered · spacey · uncentered · imbalance
liberation
Release from constraint
- unshacklingRemoving fetters or constraints
- releaseTo let go
- unfetteringRemoving shackles or constraints
unbinding · unleashing · emancipation · detachment · loosening · untying · unchaining · escape
disconnection
State of being severed
- uprootingExtracting from the earth
- imbalanceLack of proportion
- disharmonyAbsence of agreement
ethereal · floating · untethered · unanchored · rootlessness · disembodiment · astral · transcendence · otherworldly
shock
Violent sudden disturbance
current · voltage · wiring · hazard · live-wire · short-circuit · arc · surge · electrocution · leakage
ungroundinggrounding
Connecting to earth
anchoring · securing · stabilizing · rooting · fixing
ungroundinggrounding
Connecting to earth
centering · stabilizing · anchoring · recentering · settling
ground, background, underground, grounds, grounded, groundwork, grounding, groundless, foreground