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unshut

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ shut.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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unshut (third-person singular simple present unshuts, present participle unshutting, simple past and past participle unshut)

  1. (now rare) To open (a door, window etc.).
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI (in Middle English):
      ANd anone as he had vnshet the wyndowe the enchaūtement was gone / thēne he knewe hym self that he had done amys / Allas he sayd that I haue lyued so long now I am shamed / Soo thenne he gat his swerd in his hand and said thow traitresse what arte thow that I haue layn by alle this nyghte / thow shalt dye ryghte here of my handes
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