unbutton

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English

Etymology

From Middle English onbottonen, unbotonen; equivalent to un- +‎ button.

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Verb

unbutton (third-person singular simple present unbuttons, present participle unbuttoning, simple past and past participle unbuttoned)

  1. (ambitransitive) To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
    • 1749, , “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , London: ">…] for G. Fenton  , →OCLC:
      Being now too high wound up to bear a delay, he unbutton'd, and drawing out the engine of love-assaults, drove it currently, as at a ready-made breach
  2. (intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened.
    • 2010, Janet Chapman, Tempt Me If You Can, page 70:
      He was so muscled and firm, and the canvas shirt under his jacket unbuttoned easily.

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