Unscrew
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intransitive verb.
To take out the screw or screws from.
intransitive verb.
To loosen, adjust, or remove by rotating.
intransitive verb.
To become or allow to become unscrewed.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To draw the screws from; unfasten by taking out screws; also, to loosen (a screw) by turning it so as to withdraw it: often used figuratively.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
verb.
To
loosen
a thing by
turning
it.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb.
loosen by turning
verb.
loosen something by unscrewing it
Word Usage
"But the Zionist state was created, and as you can't "unscrew" the mother of an illegitimate child-neither can you unscrew the Palestinian people: -)"
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
loose
loosen
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
Loos
verb-form
unscrewed
unscrewing
unscrews