Ungird

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To loosen by taking off the girdle, as a robe; also, to take the girdle or belt from.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To loosen the girdle or band of.
  • verb. To unbind or unload.
  • Word Usage
    "I realise that the queer sensibility tries to "ungird" and de-stabilize our sense of what is and isn't "natural"."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unbind  unload