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unpin

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verb unpins · unpinning · unpinned

transitive To unfasten by removing a pin. Lady Bellaston answered with a smile, “Then you have seen this terrible man, madam; pray, is he so very fine a figure as he is represented? for Etoff entertained me last night almost two hours with him. The wench I believe is in love with him by reputation.” Here the reader will be apt to wonder; bu
transitive To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned. to unpin a program from the Taskbar
transitive To undo the pinning or fixing of (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it can be modified again. […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.
transitive To get (a piece) out of a pin.

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Español	desfijar, desprender
Français	désépingler

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@misc{unpin_2026,
  title = {unpin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unpin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}