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unlute

unlute verb: to separate, as things cemented or luted.

Verb

unlute (third-person singular simple present unlutes, present participle unluting, simple past and past participle unluted)

  1. (transitive) To separate, as things cemented or luted
  2. (transitive) to take the lute from, to unseal
    • Let the Vessels be cool'd, and unluted, and the Panacæa will appear at the bottom of the Cucurbite1696, M. le Clerc, The Compleat Surgeon
    • carelesly unlute the vessels1673, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the title)”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC

Forms of unlute

third-person singular presentunlutes
present participleunluting
past participleunluted
pastunluted

Origin of unlute

From un- + lute.

Questions about unlute

What does unlute mean?
Unlute means to separate, as things cemented or luted.
What part of speech is unlute?
Unlute is a verb.
What is the past tense of unlute?
The past tense of unlute is unluted.

Words near unlute in the dictionary

  1. unlustfully
  2. unlustiness
  3. unlustrous
  4. unlusts
  5. unlusty
  6. unlute
  7. unluted
  8. unlutes
  9. unluting
  10. unluxuriant
  11. unluxurious

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