as in to untie
to disengage the knotted parts of
gently unfastened the strings of the baby's hood
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Recent Examples of unfasten
Ayoola attempted to put his fingers between his neck and the seatbelt, and was unable to unfasten his seatbelt.
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
This paper proposes a spherical tether handling device that unfastens a robot’s tether during surveys by releasing the tether and carrying it aside.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
Each pair comes embellished with a large wooden button that can be fastened for maximum warmth or unfastened for easy slip-off removal.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Leave the pockets unzipped or unfastened when washing. 2.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2024
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
This paper proposes a spherical tether handling device that unfastens a robot’s tether during surveys by releasing the tether and carrying it aside.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
Each pair comes embellished with a large wooden button that can be fastened for maximum warmth or unfastened for easy slip-off removal.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Leave the pockets unzipped or unfastened when washing. 2.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfasten
Verb
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My only beef was that the barrel laces felt clumsy when tightening the shoe and came untied easily.—
Jonathan Beverly,
Outside Online,
23 June 2025
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But Monday was the 12th time in the past 24 games the Padres’ bullpen has lost a lead or let an opponent untie a game.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 June 2025
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Sabrina Carpenter is loosening her leash on Man’s Best Friend ahead of its release date, with the pop star playing the album for a group of lucky fans who got to hear it before the rest of the world at an exclusive event on Wednesday (Aug. 13).—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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Officials argue that these agreements are needed to get China to loosen its own controls on rare earth magnets, which threaten several U.S. industries like automobiles and defense.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
14 Aug. 2025
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Those fixes, such as fine-tuning a model’s responses to avoid dangerous outputs, can work in the short term but are easier to undo and can sometimes weaken the model in unintended ways.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
14 Aug. 2025
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Brandon Bell/Getty Brian Albrecht, chief economist at the International Center for Law and Economics, added that even small distortions could be difficult to undo.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
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The book was centered on the idea that Russia’s geography is its fate and that there is nothing any ruler can do to unbind himself from the necessities of securing his lands.—
Anton Barbashin,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Mar. 2014
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“Unfasten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfasten. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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