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UNSHEATHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsheathe mean? 

UNSHEATHE (verb)
  The verb UNSHEATHE has 1 sense:

1. draw from a sheath or scabbardplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNSHEATHE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they unsheathe  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it unsheathes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: unsheathed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: unsheathed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: unsheathing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw from a sheath or scabbard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the knight unsheathed his sword

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

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

sheathe (enclose with a sheath)


 Context examples 


This species is motile using one or more unsheathed polar flagella, urease, arginine dihydrolase, and lipase positive, gelatinase negative, not bioluminescent, does not require NaCl for growth, and utilizes pyruvate, lactate, glutamate, mannose, galactose, cellobiose and glycerate as its sole source of carbon and energy in 0.05% yeast extract.

(Photobacterium damselae, NCI Thesaurus)



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