unturn

English

Etymology

un- +‎ turn

Verb

unturn (third-person singular simple present unturns, present participle unturning, simple past and past participle unturned)

1. To turn in a reverse way, especially so as to open something.

   to unturn a key

   • 1817, John Keats, Sonnet written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison:

     Think you he nought but prison walls did see,
     Till, so unwilling, thou unturn'dst the key ?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)