unspring
English
Etymology
un- + spring
Verb
unspring (third-person singular simple present unsprings, present participle unspringing, simple past unsprang or unsprung, past participle unsprung)
- (transitive, intransitive) To release or be released by means of a spring.
- 2010, Elizabeth Mirabel Sain, Gift with Purchase:
- There was a click and the unspringing of a latch.
- (transitive) To undo the springing of (a mechanism).
- to unspring a trap