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UNTYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untying mean? 

UNTYING (noun)
  The noun UNTYING has 1 sense:

1. loosening the ties that fasten somethingplay

  Familiarity information: UNTYING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNTYING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Loosening the ties that fasten something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

undoing; unfastening; untying

Context example:

the tying of bow ties is an art; the untying is easy

Hypernyms ("untying" is a kind of...):

laxation; loosening (the act of making something less tight)

Derivation:

untie (cause to become loose)


 Context examples 


Then the other pretended to give way, and said, “Thou must let the sack of wisdom descend, by untying yonder cord, and then thou shalt enter.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Master Davy,” said Peggotty, untying her bonnet with a shaking hand, and speaking in a breathless sort of way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Adele seemed scarcely to need the warning—she had already retired to a sofa with her treasure, and was busy untying the cord which secured the lid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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