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Unstring   Listen
verb
Unstring  v. t.  (past & past part. unstrung; pres. part. unstringing)  
1.
To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
2.
To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow.
3.
To relax the tension of; to loosen. "His garland they unstring."





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"Unstring" Quotes from Famous Books



... very deed to which the prophetic greetings stimulate him. So, again, in Hamlet, the intimations of the Ghost touching "the secrets of its prison-house" kindle the hero full of "thoughts beyond the reaches of his soul," which entrance him in meditation, unstring his resolution, and render him morally incapable of the office to which that same ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson


Words linked to "Unstring" :   remove, take, withdraw, string, take away


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