unfasten

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fasten

Verb

unfasten (third-person singular simple present unfastens, present participle unfastening, simple past and past participle unfastened)

1. (transitive) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect.
2. (intransitive) To come untied or unloosed.

Quotations

• c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, iv. 1. 209.

  He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.

Synonyms

• undo
• unbutton
• untie
• unzip

Antonyms

• do up
• button
• button up
• tie up
• zip
• zip up

Translations

to loose

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解開 (cmn), 解开 (cmn) (jiěkāi)

• Finnish: irrottaa (fi)
• French: défaire (fr)
• German: abschnallen (de), lösen (de), losmachen (de)
• Greek: λύνω (el) (lýno), χαλαρώνω (el) (chalaróno), (unbutton) ξεκουμπώνω (el) (xekoumpóno), ξεδένω (el) (xedéno)

• Irish: scaoil (ga)
• Japanese: はずす (ja) (hazusu), ほどく (ja) (hodoku), 解く (ja) (とく, toku)
• Russian: развязывать (ru) (razvjázyvatʹ) impf., развязать (ru) (razvjazátʹ) pf., расстёгивать (ru) (rasstjógivatʹ) impf., расстегнуть (ru) (rasstegnútʹ) pf.
• Spanish: desabrochar (es)

to come untied or unloosed

• Finnish: irrota (fi)
• Russian: развязываться (ru) (razvjázyvatʹsja) impf., развязаться (ru) (razvjazátʹsja) pf., расстёгиваться (ru) (rasstjógivatʹsja) impf., расстегнуться (ru) (rasstegnútʹsja) pf.

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: losmaken (nl)

References

• unfasten in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911