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Unzip

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

v. To open or unfasten by means of a zipper or become unzipped.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to open something using a zipper.

v. to come open by means of a zipper.

v. To decompress a zip file

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

v. open the zipper of

Word Usage

"Even on Ares-I, the 'unzip' would still liberate a large amount of incandescent SRM fuel outwards and upwards (even if the AIUS prevented vertical/near-vertical dispersion) that the Orion would have to descend through."

Antonym

zip up

Verb Form

unzipped unzipping unzips

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

unfasten

Variant

unzipped unzipping

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Chip Crip Flip Kip Nip

Same Context

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