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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfasten
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unfasten a button
▪ Can you unfasten this button for me?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do not unfasten your safety belt until the plane has stopped.
▪ It was hot in the waiting-room, so I unfastened my coat.
▪ Jack unfastened his seatbelt and stepped out of the car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ FitzAlan moved a pace to meet them, his free hand unfastening his cloak.
▪ He'd discarded his trousers and was unfastening his shirt when she realised she was staring.
▪ He sat her down and began to unfasten her coat.
▪ I went up to my room and began unfastening my black skirt.
▪ Ripping off her Englishness and casting it aside was as easy as unfastening the collar of her dress.
▪ She flinched once, then started to obey, unfastening the ties at the neck of her gown with shaking fingers.
▪ She watched him unfasten his belt, and drop his trousers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfasten

Unfasten \Un*fas"ten\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + fasten.] To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfasten

early 13c., from un- (2) "opposite of" + fasten. Old English had unfæstnian "to unfasten." Related: Unfastened; unfastening.

Wiktionary
unfasten

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect. 2 (context intransitive English) To come untied or unloosed.

WordNet
unfasten
  1. v. cause to become undone; "unfasten your belt" [ant: fasten]

  2. become undone or untied; "The shoelaces unfastened" [ant: fasten]

Usage examples of "unfasten".

Garden, the door becomes unfastened, and the first thing anybody knows, out pops Bongo, and goes bouncing along the street where a lot of the neighbors?

He stood beside the bed unfastening his sword belt, then his cotte hardie.

I walked along the beach for a quarter of an hour, and finding a boat empty, but with a pair of oars, I got in her, and unfastening her, I rowed as hard as I could towards a large caicco, sailing against the wind with six oars.

Jason was spinning his cummerbund around, trying to unfasten it without putting down the salad bowl.

She unfastened the holster flap, tucked it behind her belt, made certain the lanyard was securely clipped to the butt ring on the darter, then she shouldered the arras aside and stepped into the room.

It was off in a second, but there was still another to unfasten, for Dete had put the Sunday frock on over the everyday one, to save the trouble of carrying it.

If one of her bracelets became unfastened, I offered to fasten it again, but either she would not give me so much trouble, or I did not understand the fastening, and the maid was called to do it.

She shook out the duvet, unfastening the cover to make sure there was nothing inside.

Dengar managed to brace his feet against the side of the gap, enough to unfasten the line from the outcropping and pay it out hand over hand, gradually dropping Boba Fett toward the floor of the cavern.

Bryndel unfasten the straps and the gaffer extended his hand to help Bryndel down.

The coat was unfastened and Hyrald noted immediately that he was unarmed, apart from what was obviously a working knife in a rough string-bound sheath shoved into his belt.

As she faced him, she held out a hand expectantly for the kaftan, but her husband dawdled as he unfastened the frogs.

The smithy had not been quite so broad across the chest as Killian, forcing him to leave the simple garment unfastened across his throat.

He watched with growing expectation, but without a feeling of lechery as she reached behind her and unfastened the brassiere of pink material.

There were couples meeting up for dates, junior execs in sweatpants hot from the raquets court, and women who had been working late now, with their blouses unfastened a couple of notches, looking for fun.