unbutton
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʌnˈbʌtən/
unbutton (unbuttons, present participle unbuttoning; past and past participle unbuttoned)
- (ambitransitive) To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352 ↗:
- Being now too high wound up to bear a delay, he unbutton'd, and drawing out the engine of love-assaults, drove it currently, as at a ready-made breach
- (intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened.
- 2010, Janet Chapman, Tempt Me If You Can (page 70)
- He was so muscled and firm, and the canvas shirt under his jacket unbuttoned easily.
- 2010, Janet Chapman, Tempt Me If You Can (page 70)
- German: aufknöpfen
- Italian: sbottonare
- Portuguese: desabotoar
- Spanish: desabotonar
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