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UNLOCKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not firmly fastened or secured
Example:
an unlocked room
Synonyms:
unbarred; unbolted; unlatched; unlocked; unsecured
Classified under:
Similar:
unfastened (not closed or secured)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb unlock
Context examples:
I said this whilst I knelt down at, and unlocked a trunk which contained a brace of loaded pistols: I mean to shoot myself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The box was brought and placed before her, and Mrs Smith, sighing over it as she unlocked it, said—This is full of papers belonging to him, to my husband; a small portion only of what I had to look over when I lost him.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The instrument was unlocked, every body prepared to be charmed, and Marianne, who sang very well, at their request went through the chief of the songs which Lady Middleton had brought into the family on her marriage, and which perhaps had lain ever since in the same position on the pianoforte, for her ladyship had celebrated that event by giving up music, although by her mother's account, she had played extremely well, and by her own was very fond of it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In this there was surely something mysterious, and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute, till the possibility of the door's having been at first unlocked, and of being herself its fastener, darted into her head, and cost her another blush.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I swore and subscribed to these articles with great cheerfulness and content, although some of them were not so honourable as I could have wished; which proceeded wholly from the malice of Skyresh Bolgolam, the high-admiral: whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He had unlocked the door that led to the deck, and we were through it in a rush.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lecturer unlocked the outer door and ushered us into his room.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which he unlocked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That key must be in the Count's room; I must watch should his door be unlocked, so that I may get it and escape.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
