UNZIP (unzipped, unzipping)

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Irregular inflected forms: unzipped    , unzipping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unzip mean? 

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

1. open the zipper of

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNZIP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unzip    ... he / she / it unzips   
Past simple: unzipped   
Past participle: unzipped   
-ing form: unzipping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open the zipper of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

unzip the bag

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

unfasten (cause to become undone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

zip up (close with a zipper)

 Context examples 

A class of enzymes that utilizes the energy of ATP hydrolysis to unwind (unzipped) dsDNA.

(DNA Helicase, NCI Thesaurus)

During the tectonically active Cretaceous Period, southern Africa lost Madagascar and Antarctica as they split off to the east and south, followed by the gradual northward unzipping of South America.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)