unkennel

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ kennel.

Verb

unkennel (third-person singular simple present unkennels, present participle unkenneling or unkennelling, simple past and past participle unkenneled or unkennelled)

  1. (transitive) To scare out from a lair or a den.
  2. (transitive) To let (dogs) out of a kennel.
  3. (figurative, transitive, intransitive) To reveal, uncover or unfold.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      Hamlet:
      [] There is a play to-night before the king;
      One scene of it comes near the circumstance
      Which I have told thee of my father's death:
      I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
      Even with the very comment of thy soul
      Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
      Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
      It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
      And my imaginations are as foul
      As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;
      For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
      And after we will both our judgments join
      In censure of his seeming.