as in loosened
to disengage the knotted parts of
gently unfastened the strings of the baby's hood
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Recent Examples of unfastened
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.
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Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him.
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Kansas City Star,
5 Jan. 2026
Adama unfastened a padlock and loosened the chain securing the doors.
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Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
After the pink fabric is unfastened from styrofoam beams floating 200 feet out from each island, the sections are towed to shore and rolled up in bundles, Morgan said.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.
—
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him.
—
Kansas City Star,
5 Jan. 2026
Adama unfastened a padlock and loosened the chain securing the doors.
—
Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfastened
Adjective
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While Salomon sneakers are, in part, known for their shoelaces that never come untied, this pair doesn’t have any at all.
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Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.
Verb
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Citgo is asking for carbon monoxide emissions standards to be loosened for certain larger boilers and heaters at the Lemont refinery during periods of startup and shutdown, Citgo lawyer Melissa Brown said in an opening statement.
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Anderson’s collection was about formality losing its grip — tuxedos loosened, denim ripped, sequins flashing, disco-ball boots stepping through a house built on old-world taste.
Adjective
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They got approved for a mortgage on a £150,000 (about $198,441) two-bedroom, semi-detached house in Seaham, England.
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Olise has purposefully cultivated a kind of detached non-persona.
Verb
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Instead, Sapphire undid her shorts.
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Ryan Oksenhorn, co-founder of drone delivery startup Zipline, wrote in a post on X last month that his company was evaluating GitLab and Atlassian's Bitbucket after GitHub accidentally undid code revisions, and subsequently provided instructions on recovering changes.
Adjective
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Finally, showering within two hours of coming indoors can help wash away any unattached ticks.
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Three personnel are seen lifting De Freitas and shifting her over the edge of the bridge to a narrow landing, as a rope lies on the ground, seemingly unattached to her.
Adjective
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His vibrant original compositions were faithfully reproduced using stencil and combined with an original text written by the artist to form the unbound book.
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Beginning March 7, the Art Institute of Chicago will be displaying an exhibition featuring a colorful unbound book of late-career works by French artist Henri Matisse.
Adjective
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The undone to-do list has become a social occasion.
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Here's a looser, more undone example.
Adjective
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The body lay unsecured for more than 10 hours while burglars twice picked through the dead man’s room.
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That matters because state law sets an order of priority for who gets paid from an estate, and unsecured creditors usually sit near the back of the line, behind administrative costs, funeral expenses, taxes and certain priority claims.
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“Unfastened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfastened. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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