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unspring

verb

Etymology

From un- + spring.

  1. inherited from *sprungiz✻ — “a jump”
  2. inherited from *sprungi✻
  3. inherited from spryng
  4. inherited from *springaz✻ — “a wellspring, fount”
  5. inherited from *spring✻
  6. inherited from spring — “wellspring, ulcer”
  7. inherited from spryng — “a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”
  8. prefixed as unspring — “un + spring”

Definitions

  1. To release or be released by means of a spring.

    • There was a click and the unspringing of a latch.

  2. To undo the springing of (a mechanism).

    • to unspring a trap

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA