unkennel

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To scare out from a lair or a den.
2. (transitive) To let (dogs) out of a kennel.
3. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To reveal, uncover or unfold.
   • 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...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...