vi-√ muc P. Ā. -muñcati, °te (Impv. -mumoktu, [RV. i, 24, 13]), to unloose, unharness (Ā. ‘one's own horses’), unyoke (i.e. ‘make to halt, cause to stop or rest’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to take off (clothes, ornaments &c.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to release, set free, liberate, [ib.]; to leave, abandon, quit, desert, give up, relinquish, [ib.]; to shun, avoid, [MuṇḍUp.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to lose (consciousness), [Hariv.]; to pardon, forgive, [Gīt.]; [BhP.]; to emit, discharge, shed, pour or send forth, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] (with grastam, to set free a seized planet i.e. ‘free it from eclipse’, [Sūryas.]); to throw, hurl, cast (with ātmānam and loc., ‘to cast one's self into’, [Uttarar.]), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to utter (a sound), [MBh.]; to assume (a shape), [Mn. i, 56]; to lay (eggs), [Pañcat. i, 353/354]; Pass. -mucyate, to be unloosed or detached &c.; to be slackened (as reins), [Śak.]; to drop or be expelled (prematurely, as a fetus), [Suśr.]; to be freed or delivered or released (esp. from the bonds of existence), get rid of, escape from (abl. adv. in -tas, gen., or instr.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be deprived of (instr.), [Hit.] : Caus. -mocayati, to loosen, detach, [Śak.]; to unyoke, [Kauś.]; to set free, deliver from (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to keep off, avoid, [R.] : Desid. -mumukṣati, °te, to wish to liberate (Ā. ‘one's self’), [BhP.]
vi-múc f. unyoking, alighting, stopping, putting up, [RV.] (vimuco napāt, ‘son of unyoking’, N. of Pūṣan as ‘conductor on the way to the next world’, [ib.])