unturn

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ turn.

Verb

unturn (third-person singular simple present unturns, present participle unturning, simple past and past participle unturned)

  1. To turn in a reverse way, especially so as to open something.
    to unturn a key
    • 1817, John Keats, Sonnet written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison:
      Think you he nought but prison walls did see,
      Till, so unwilling, thou unturn'dst the key ?

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