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
His bow tie wants to be untied, his vest buttons unfastened, his top hat removed.
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James Meyer, Artforum, 1 May 2025
Grant, meanwhile, wore a simple black suit and a white button-up shirt with the first few buttons unfastened in a boyish manner.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Ayoola attempted to put his fingers between his neck and the seatbelt, and was unable to unfasten his seatbelt.
—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
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Sarah unties Gerard and runs out just in time to stop Downey, who begs her to let this all go.—
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Several minutes later, Chenoweth reappeared onstage, in a black Blondie sweatshirt and untied white sparkly sneakers.—
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This will loosen any bits on the bottom of the oven.—
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South Korea could use this as an opportunity to press China to loosen its informal restrictions on Korean entertainment from 2016 or to get China firmly on board with North Korean denuclearization.—
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The automaker spent much of the year undoing decisions made by the previous CEO, Carlos Tavares, who resigned at the end of 2024, as stakeholders in the company — from dealers to union rank and file — were upset with him and unhappy with his leadership.—
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City Attorney George Wysong declined to comment Thursday on whether the city is able to undo the agreement, which allows the city to deputize select police officers with immigration enforcement powers.—
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This work unbinds the body from centuries of Western imagery, freeing it from representation and opening it to abstraction.—
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But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.—
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“Unfasten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfasten. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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