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/ənlˈɑk/ Listen

verb

Unlock v. t.

To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

To open, in general; to lay open; to undo. "Unlock your springs, and open all your shades." "(Lord) unlock the spell of sin."

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Etymology of 'Unlock'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unlock" Quotes from Famous Books

... perforce, we must; but, Hector, thou Haste to the city; there our mother find, Both thine and mine; on Ilium's topmost height By all the aged dames accompanied, Bid her the shrine of blue-ey'd Pallas seek; Unlock the sacred gates; and on the knees Of fair-hair'd Pallas place the fairest robe In all the house, the amplest, best esteem'd; And at her altar vow to sacrifice Twelve yearling kine that never felt the goad, So she have pity on the Trojan state, Our wives, and helpless babes, and turn ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... happened, Franklin, the next morning went to unlock the house door, as usual; but finding the key entangled in the lock, he took it out to examine it, and perceived a lump of wax sticking in one of the wards. Struck with this circumstance, it brought to his mind all that had passed the preceding evening, and ...

— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth

... did the boy his tongue unlock, And thus to me he made reply; "At Kilve there was no weather-cock, "And that's the ...

— Lyrical Ballads 1798 • Wordsworth and Coleridge

... it a name; and if you meet any one as you go away, say 'Perrett told me' (Perrett's my name), and then you'll see!" What the precise virtue of this invocation was, we did not have an opportunity of testing, but that it was a talisman to unlock hidden doors, I make ...

— The Thread of Gold • Arthur Christopher Benson

... confidential. She always, even in her soberest moments, seemed to be telling everything she knew; but Susan had learned that there were in her many deep secrets, some of which not even liquor could unlock. ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

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