unscrew

English

Etymology

un- +‎ screw

Verb

unscrew (third-person singular simple present unscrews, present participle unscrewing, simple past and past participle unscrewed)

1. (transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

   I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.

Antonyms

• screw

Translations

loosen a screw etc.

• Danish: skrue ud
• Finnish: ruuvata auki (of screws); kiertää auki (of something else, like a lid)
• Galician: desaparafusar
• German: abschrauben (de), losschrauben
• Ido: desskrubagar (io), desvisar (io)
• Mongolian: эрэг сулрах (ereg sulrax)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skru ut

• Portuguese: desaparafusar, desparafusar
• Spanish: destornillar (es), desatornillar (es)