unbrace
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unbrace (third-person singular simple present unbraces, present participle unbracing, simple past and past participle unbraced)
- (transitive) To undo, unfasten; to relax, loosen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The knight emboyling in his haughtie hart, / Knit all his forces, and gan soone vnbrace / His grasping hold [...].