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
If your button-down outfit is in need of a little spice, a quick trick is to unfasten the top and slip out a single shoulder.
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Sri Rain Stewart,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 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
See All Example Sentences for unfasten
Sri Rain Stewart,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 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
See All Example Sentences for unfasten
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfasten
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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.
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Because you can't get untied every time.
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Add enough of the measured water to loosen the mixture and form a sauce; fluid but not runny is the key.
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The board also had to grant a request to loosen zoning rules, called a variance, to allow for six housing units — which is a few more than would normally be allowed on a lot of its size — and make the project possible.
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Well, Ariana seems to remember, whereas Hudson is determined to just undo the breakup and pretend like none of it ever happened.
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Disability organisations including The Arc and the Council for Exceptional Children have warned the change risks shifting special education from an education framework to a medical one, undoing decades of progress toward integration in schools.
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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 3 Jul. 2026.
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