unstay

verb

Etymology

From un- + stay.

  1. derived from *(s)teg-
  2. derived from *stakô
  3. derived from *stakā
  4. derived from estaye
  5. derived from *stéh₂tis
  6. derived from *stadiz
  7. derived from *stadi
  8. derived from staeye
  9. derived from estayer
  10. inherited from steyen
  11. prefixed as unstay — “un + stay

Definitions

  1. To undo the establishment of

    To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest.

    • He plays with the late Watts-Dunton and gets good fun out of it; he rips open the sham, unstays the imperfect, sonnet ; he tackles all fretters of the great English instrument and worries them all, yet with a fine sanity.
  2. To expel

    To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid.

    • Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.

The neighborhood

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