UNLACE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

unlace

verb

Definition of unlace

as in to unfasten

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Recent Examples of unlace More than one hiker has inadvertently gotten the oil on their fingers when unlacing a boot, then transferred it to their forehead. — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023 However, the zipper eliminates having to fully unlace the Kamiak Ridge with each use. — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 June 2021 Their joy turns to horror as a train approaches and Buddy struggles to unlace his shoe. — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2020 Keep your shoes laced normally, then unlace the top two eyelets (this includes that extra eyelet on the top). — Alexa Tucker, SELF, 8 May 2019 At the French Open on Monday, the 36-year-old was abruptly forced to unlace her sneakers because of a chest muscle injury that prevented her from stepping on court. — Sandra Harwitt, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018

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Transforming the cabin from sitting to sleeping is a group effort that includes unpacking the ladder (usually stowed beneath the seats with the luggage), unfastening the upper bunks, and making the beds.

— Emily Manthei, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
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.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of unfasten

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One popular saying suggests a knot tied on a rainy day is harder to untie.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
There, by definition, each match has to have a winner and a loser, so any match that ends in a draw proceeds to two 15-minute periods of overtime, and, if that fails to untie the score, a penalty kick shootout.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 24 June 2026

Definition of untie

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The work offers hints of a new explanation for how the brain can unbraid overlapping streams of auditory stimuli so quickly and effectively.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
Brexit requires unbraiding a centuries-deep history of entanglements, causing major disruption to the country as a whole and Northern Ireland in particular.

— Seamas O’Reilly, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019

Definition of unbraid

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