unbolt
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Wiseman then switched to a ratchet wrench to unbolt the failed device, known as a sequential shunt unit, or SSU.
From Reuters ● Oct. 15, 2014
“What if I found a way to unbolt the metal screens and crawl through the fan ducts into your cell, would you let me do it?”
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2014
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service could not cut the spike as it was too thick, opting instead to unbolt it.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2014
Grissom, White and Chaffee tried — briefly — to unbolt the hatch, but they were quickly overcome.
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2011
When they reached the very bottom and the wall rose frowning above them, Lasaraleen was shaking so that she could not unbolt the gate.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
The monk woman unbolts a door, barely big enough for a medium-sized Labrador, and I stoop through.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2017
Some love seats and sofas are built with a frame system that unbolts easily once the dust cover on the bottom is removed, while others are a lot trickier to take apart.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2016
At the door he stops, collects himself, and quietly unbolts the door.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Yet on the third night she actually unbolts it herself and leaving it unbolted puts out her light and goes to bed.
From The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Then a woman's hand quietly unbolts the door and receives the little wanderer back.
From Beneath the Banner by F. J. Cross
Last April, as part of the city’s reconstruction of Victor Steinbrueck Park, the poles were unbolted from their plinths and delivered to Discovery Park, where they have rested side by side, unprotected from the elements.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
For example, a converted 1991 Porsche can be unbolted and retuned back to its original state.
From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2021
The impact unbolted a large crystal chandelier above the ambassador’s desk that missed his head by inches.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
"The tigers got loose when a shutter of their cage was left unbolted," Prince-Cox explained.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
The shed door was still unbolted, and she let herself in and crept noiselessly through the house.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knocked, however, and rang boldly; and after a brief delay, and considerable noise of unbolting and unbarring, was admitted.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever
Susan received them with a great unbolting and unlocking of the door.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
He was unbolting the door, when his sister's voice was heard on the outside conjuring him to come forth.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
With a grin, Kirby took Naida’s hand and led her down the steps, unbolting each bronze gate but the last.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
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