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UNHARNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unharness mean?
• UNHARNESS (verb)
The verb UNHARNESS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNHARNESS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the harness from
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
unharness a horse
Hypernyms (to "unharness" is one way to...):
unhitch (unfasten or release from or as if from a hitch)
Domain category:
animal husbandry (breeding and caring for farm animals)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unharness"):
outspan (remove the yoke or harness from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
harness (put a harness)
Context examples
The sled was upside down and jammed between a tree-trunk and a huge rock, and they were forced to unharness the dogs in order to straighten out the tangle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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