Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unstay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-stay
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest.

Transitive verb

verb

To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
""[...] And true it is that the life of man is in the hands of God; and the state of kingdoms doth also belong to Him, to stay or to unstay them." All men had clearly foreseen that Edward's death would beget the evils of a disputed succession."
"Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business."

Etymology

From un- + stay.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unstays (present, singular) unstaying (participle, present) unstayed (participle, past) unstayed (past)

Questions

What does unstay mean?: To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest.
Where does unstay come from?: From un- + stay.

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