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UNHARNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unharness mean? 

UNHARNESS (verb)
  The verb UNHARNESS has 1 sense:

1. remove the harness fromplay

  Familiarity information: UNHARNESS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNHARNESS (verb)


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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