unseam

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːm

Verb

unseam (third-person singular simple present unseams, present participle unseaming, simple past and past participle unseamed)

1. To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

1. Quotation

   • 1603-06: "...Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements." — Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc2, Wm. Shakespeare.