unbutton

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ʌtən

Verb

unbutton (third-person singular simple present unbuttons, present participle unbuttoning, simple past and past participle unbuttoned)

(transitive, intransitive) To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
- 1749, John Cleland, “part 2”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
  Being now too high wound up to bear a delay, he unbutton'd, and drawing out the engine of love-assaults, drove it currently, as at a ready-made breach
(intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened.
- 2010, Janet Chapman, Tempt Me If You Can (page 70)
  He was so muscled and firm, and the canvas shirt under his jacket unbuttoned easily.

Translations

(transitive)

German: aufknöpfen
Greek: ξεκουμπώνω (el) (xekoumpóno)
Ido: desbutonagar (io)
Italian: sbottonare
Portuguese: desabotoar

Romanian: descheia (ro)
Spanish: desabotonar (es)
Swedish: knäppa upp
Turkish: çözmek (tr)

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