unnest

English

Etymology

Verb

unnest (third-person singular simple present unnests, present participle unnesting, simple past and past participle unnested)

To eject from a nest.
To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
  The eye unnested from the head, cannot see
- 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
  She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.

Synonyms

unnestle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unnest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

unsent

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