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unfasten

US/ʌnˈfɑːs(ə)n/

unfasten verb: to detach from any connecting agency or link; to disconnect.

Verb

unfasten (third-person singular simple present unfastens, present participle unfastening, simple past and past participle unfastened)

  1. (transitive) To detach from any connecting agency or link; to disconnect.
    • He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
  2. (intransitive) To come unloosed or untied.

unfasten meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

unfasten in Tamil

to unfasten, loosen, disconnect, unscrew
கழற்று kaḻaṟṟu

unfasten in Urdu

الگ کرنا, ڈھیلا کرنا, گرہ کھولنا, کھولنا

unfasten in Malayalam

disconnect, undo, open
ബന്ധം വിടുത്തുക, അഴിക്കുക, തുറക്കുക, കെട്ടുവിടുവിക്കുക, വേർപെടുത്തുക, ബന്ധവിച്ഛേദം ചെയ്ക

unfasten in Kannada

ಪಿಳಿಲು, ಬಿಚ್ಚು

Synonyms of unfasten

Antonyms

Forms of unfasten

third-person singular presentunfastens
present participleunfastening
past participleunfastened
pastunfastened

Origin of unfasten

From un- + fasten.

Words formed from unfasten

Questions about unfasten

What does unfasten mean?
Unfasten means to detach from any connecting agency or link; to disconnect.
What is unfasten in Tamil?
Unfasten in Tamil is கழற்று (kaḻaṟṟu). See Unfasten meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unfasten?
Unfasten is a verb.
How do you pronounce unfasten?
Unfasten is pronounced /ʌnˈfɑːs(ə)n/ (US).
What is the past tense of unfasten?
The past tense of unfasten is unfastened.

Words near unfasten in the dictionary

  1. unfashioned
  2. unfashioning
  3. unfashions
  4. unfast
  5. unfasted
  6. unfasten
  7. unfastenable
  8. unfastened
  9. unfastener
  10. unfasteners
  11. unfastening

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unfasten (page history and authors); கழற்று (Tamil) (page history and authors); unfasten (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unfasten (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unfasten (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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