unstay

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unstay

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From un- + stay.

verb unstays · unstaying · unstayed

  1. transitive 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. transitive To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid. Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.

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