"unscrew" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: unscrews [present, singular, third-person], unscrewing [participle, present], unscrewed [participle, past], unscrewed [past]
Etymology: un- + screw Etymology templates: {{pre|en|un|screw|id1=reversive}} un- + screw Head templates: {{en-verb}} unscrew (third-person singular simple present unscrews, present participle unscrewing, simple past and past participle unscrewed)
  1. (transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it. Tags: transitive Translations (loosen a screw etc.): отвивам (otvivam) (Bulgarian), развинтвам (razvintvam) (Bulgarian), skrue ud (Danish), ruuvata auki (note: of screws) (Finnish), kiertää auki (note: of something else, like a lid) (Finnish), dévisser (French), desaparafusar (Galician), abschrauben (German), losschrauben (German), desskrubagar (Ido), desvisar (Ido), svitare (Italian), эрэг сулрах (ereg sulrax) (Mongolian), skru ut (Norwegian Bokmål), odkręcać (Polish), desaparafusar (Portuguese), desparafusar (Portuguese), deșuruba (Romanian), desatornillar (Spanish), destornillar (Spanish), desenroscar (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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