unturn
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editunturn (third-person singular simple present unturns, present participle unturning, simple past and past participle unturned)
- 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 ?
References
edit- “unturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.