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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unplug
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did you remember to unplug the kettle?
▪ I was getting a lot of crank calls, so I started unplugging my phone at night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, unplug the telephone but keep it near the socket for emergency use.
▪ Always remove the lead from the spark plug of petrol machines and unplug electric models before cleaning or servicing.
▪ But remember to unplug all the tank's electrical equipment before putting your hands into the water.
▪ It means unplugging his wires from his body.
▪ To end the call, the user would have to turn off the computer or unplug the telephone connection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unplug

1775, from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + plug (v.). Related: Unplugged; unplugging.

Wiktionary
unplug

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket. 2 (context transitive English) To remove a blockage from (especially a water pipe or drain).

WordNet
unplug
  1. v. of electrical appliances [syn: disconnect] [ant: plug in]

  2. [also: unplugging, unplugged]

Usage examples of "unplug".

Fourcade incident hit the airwaves, she had considered unplugging the thing.

She checked her spacesuit carefully for tears in the fabric, then suited up as usual and went through the various airlocks leading into Biosafety Level Four, plugging and unplugging and replugging her air hose.

She probably unplugged the hot plate and hid it when she left for work.

Mike Sikeena had adroitly and silently clubbed down the two sentries on the foredeck and the quarterdeck, both he and Arsen guided their opened carriers along the rank of iron guns positioned in the waist of the ship, unplugging touchholes, filling these holes with fine priming powder from flasks they carried, then going on to the next gun, not stopping until all of the larboard deck guns had been primed to fire.

Jesse said, rather sourly, and Trouble looked over her shoulder to see him unplugging himself from the last system block.

Sunday and they might have passed, accepted a day with no one to plug and unplug the humming sweepers and turn the buttons on the stoves as a day off a vacation or maybe an occasion like a baptising or a picnic or a big funeral but this was Monday, a new day and a new week, rest and the need to fill time and conquer boredom was over, children fresh for school and husband and father for store or office or to stand around the Western Union desk where the hourly cotton reports came in.

Morgan Oxford phoned him twice during the next few days, each time to invite him to diplomatic parties, and each time Craig refused, and finally unplugged the telephone.

I unplug like air bladder my blood pour out upon the table for Her to lap up so much milk never come out of my breasts.

But if I were you, I'd turn off all the phones and unplug the one that's hooked to the answering machine.

When he saw a movement behind the unplugged bung-hole, he did it once more.

My casual attitude towards the VCR clock in particular drove my father crazy: after a power outage or an accidental unplugging, it might flash 12:00:00 for days before I bothered to reset it.

Go unplug the coffeepot and turn out the lights in back while I close down the register.

She should have gone straight home, unplugged appliances, shut windows, and docked her new shoes in a dry closet, but she couldn't, she just couldn't.

I unplugged the electric eel that sent shock waves all over Miami.

She unplugs the electric toothbrush, connects the Mac's power cord, then plugs herself in.