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third-person singular simple present uncloses, present participle unclosing, simple past and past participle unclosed
(transitive) To open; to unclench. quotations examples
His eyes he opened, shut, again unclosed, / For all was doubt and dizziness […]
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.112
All flowers in field or forest which uncloseTheir trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,Swinging their censers in the element,With orient incense lit by the new rayBurned slow and inconsumably, and sentTheir odorous sighs up to the smiling air […]
1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Triumph of Life
Not a word passed between them as she went to the cupboard in the corner and replaced the hammer, which she had taken without asking leave; together—she unclosed her fist—with a handful of nails.
2000, Hayden White, Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect, page 78