UNSEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unseal mean? 

• UNSEAL (verb)
  The verb UNSEAL has 1 sense:

1. break the seal of

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSEAL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unseal    ... he / she / it unseals   
Past simple: unsealed   
Past participle: unsealed   
-ing form: unsealing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Break the seal of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

He unsealed the letter

Hypernyms (to "unseal" is one way to...):

open; open up (cause to open or to become open)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

seal (close with or as if with a seal)

 Context examples 

The second and fourth were unsealed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The lawyer unsealed it, and several enclosures fell to the floor.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A professional trained and certified in the field of medicine that utilizes the nuclear properties of radioactive and stable nuclides to make diagnostic evaluations of the anatomic or physiologic conditions of the body and to provide therapy with unsealed radioactive sources.

(Nuclear Medicine Technologist, NCI Thesaurus)