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unbutton
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Word definitions for unbutton in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbutton \Un*but"ton\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + button.] To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Father Poole began to unbutton his overcoat. ▪ He pulled down his necktie and unbuttoned his shirt. ▪ She slowly unbuttoned her blouse. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I adjusted my tie and buttoned up the coat which, a little ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To unfasten buttons
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. undo the buttons of; "unbutton the shirt" [ant: button ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from un- (2) "opposite of" + button (v.). Related: Unbuttoned ; unbuttoning .
Usage examples of unbutton.
The buttonless shirt bulged in stiff waves beneath his unbuttoned vest.
Island was the haix-and-nails crowd, chaperones, and icky boys with all their macho strutting and unbuttoned shirts and hairy chests with gold chains and teensy gold crucifixes.
The chairs and sofas were plumper, plusher, more suited to long, comfortable, unbuttoned interludes with a book or a piece of embroidery.
He started for the door, unbuttoning his shirt as he went, and Prew followed him out the door and across the street into the quad where the tents were still pitched from the afternoon.
Both cops were in jeans and tennis shoes, Fortney, who was conscious of his expanding belly, wore a faded unbuttoned sport shirt over a Speedo print tee.
Low-slung baggy homeboy pants, gym shoes, short-sleeved shirt unbuttoned over a black T-shirt, spikey green hair.
The watching girl, frantic with pent up longings, unbuttoned her blouse and quickly unburdened her bosom from the tight bra restraining it.
Hawk was wearing an unconstructed silk tweed summer jacket and he unbuttoned it as we walked across the plaza.
The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.
She has lived through too much to waste energy in being modest and is tempted to unbutton her shirt and point out the underwire bra, assuring the officer that no battery and tinyvery tinyexplosive device are attached.
Sir Grummore, unbuttoning the back end and standing up to mop his brow.
I noticed I had a couple of blood spots on my shirt, so I started unbuttoning it as I went into the bedroom.
They took off his Irazi cap, unbuttoned his vest and shirt, and untied the draw string of his trousers, lorian soon stood in his breechclout, which one of the girls began to unfasten.
His shirt was unbuttoned a little past his neck to expose a forestlike growth of hair.
She unbuttoned her plain brownberry shirt and greenbrier pantaloons and pulled them off.