See unchair in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1862, Edward Bulwer Lytton, A Strange Story, page 14:",
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"text": "When I stand up, am I unchaired?",
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"ref": "2007, Henry Petroski, Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design, page 159:",
"text": "To adjust the back tension required a similar unchairing to get at the knob behind.",
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"text": "How could she restore the faith of the council, or at the very least keep from being unchaired or made a puppet?",
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