unturn

English

Etymology

From 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 ?

References

• “unturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.