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Unscrew

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To take out the screw or screws from.

v. To loosen, adjust, or remove by rotating.

verb-intransitive. To become or allow to become unscrewed.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To loosen a thing by turning it.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To draw the screws from; unfasten by taking out screws; also, to loosen (a screw) by turning it so as to withdraw it: often used figuratively.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. loosen by turning

v. loosen something by unscrewing it

Word Usage

"But the Zionist state was created, and as you can't "unscrew" the mother of an illegitimate child-neither can you unscrew the Palestinian people: -)"

Verb Form

unscrewed unscrewing unscrews

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

loosen loose

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

Loos