ungrasp

English

Etymology

un- +‎ grasp

Verb

ungrasp (third-person singular simple present ungrasps, present participle ungrasping, simple past and past participle ungrasped)

1. To release one's grasp on; to let go of.
   • 1863 April, Jonathan Watson, “The Inheritance: And How to Reach It”, in The Baptist Magazine, volume 7, page 223:

     Cling to one person : ungrasp your hold of all other persons and things.

   • 1883, James Jackson Wray, Light from the old lamp, homespun homilies, page 192:

     Have they explained in terms the revivifying process by which the dead, cold hand of winter ungrasps its victims, to wear once more the charming glow of summer life ?

   • 1877, Horatius Bonar, My Old Letters, page 87:

     Will death ungrasp his hard-locked treasure, when I shout in his deaf ear and say, Restore My stolen gold, and give me back my gems?

   • 1975, Satya Prakash, Pātañjala Rāja Yoga, page 144:

     Ungrasp your ankles; lie down in the original position and repeat another time for 10 seconds.

Noun

ungrasp (plural ungrasps)

1. The act of ungrasping; the release of something that is grasped.
   • 1991, S.G. Tzafestas, Engineering Systems with Intelligence:

     This means that the ungrasp of the object constraints the grasping.

   • 1992, Alan A. Desrochers, Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, page 302:

     For example, the system will select a grasp point for an object without concerning itself about possible problems during the ungrasp that is to be performed many steps in the future.

   • 2012, B.O. Nnaji, Theory of Automatic Robot Assembly and Programming, page 89:

     After the grasping orientation has been decided, find the proper locations for the grasp and ungrasp of the gripper.

Anagrams

• pur sang