unstay

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest. transitive
    — 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. To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid. transitive
    — Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.

词形变化

unstays present,singular,third-person unstaying participle,present unstayed participle,past unstayed past

词源

From un- + stay.
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