unstring

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNSTRING', verb transitive 1. To relax tension; to loosen; as, to unstring the nerves. 2. To deprive of strings; as, to unstring a harp. 3. To loose; to untie. 4. To take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
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