UNBOLT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbolt mean? 

• UNBOLT (verb)
  The verb UNBOLT has 1 sense:

1. undo the bolt of

  Familiarity information: UNBOLT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBOLT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undo the bolt of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

unbolt the door

Hypernyms (to "unbolt" is one way to...):

open; open up (cause to open or to become open)

"Unbolt" entails doing...:

undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They want to unbolt the doors

Antonym:

bolt (secure or lock with a bolt)

 Context examples 

Now, Jane, trip on before us away to the backstairs; unbolt the side-passage door, and tell the driver of the post-chaise you will see in the yard—or just outside, for I told him not to drive his rattling wheels over the pavement—to be ready; we are coming: and, Jane, if any one is about, come to the foot of the stairs and hem.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)