unnest

unnest

English

Etymology

un- +‎ nest

Verb

unnest (third-person singular simple present unnests, present participle unnesting, simple past and past participle unnested)

1. To eject from a nest.
2. To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons

     The eye unnested from the head, cannot see

   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter One,

     She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.

Synonyms

• unnestle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unnest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• unsent