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单词 unwrest
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unwrestv.

Forms: Also Middle English past tense and past participle vnwrast(e; 1600s vnrest.
Etymology: un- prefix2 1e.
Obsolete.
transitive. To undo, detach, or dislocate, by wresting or wrenching.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > with violence > by wrenching or wresting
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a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 13942 The ȝate closed aȝen also faste As hit ne hadde neuere ben vnwraste.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur viii. xxxiv. 326 Bothe his handes..were fast bounden vnto knyghtes;..sodenly he pulled them bothe to hym, and vnwrast his handes.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxv Haddest thou leuer se Thy sonnes necke vnwrested wyth a rope, Than [etc.].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Distorcere,..to wriggle, to wrest, to vnwrest.
1613 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. ii. 139 Their occasions made them somewhat to vnrest [1617 unwrest] the Soueraigntie from that height whereunto hee had strayned it.
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