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UNLACE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they unlace ... he / she / it unlaces
Past simple: unlaced
Past participle: unlaced
-ing form: unlacing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undo the ties of
Example:
They untied the prisoner
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "unlace" is one way to...):
undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unlace"):
unloose; unloosen (loosen the ties of)
unlash (untie the lashing of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
