disbuttonv.
/dɪsˈbʌt(ə)n/ rare.
transitive.
a. To deprive of buttons.
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1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 700/2 His eldest son..was disrobed and disbuttoned.
b. To undo the buttons of, to unbutton.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > loosen, unfasten, or untie [verb (transitive)] > undo specific fastening
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1887 C. Mackay Twin Soul I. vii. 58 As the Spartan boys kept their foxes under their waistcoats, defying the world to disbutton them.
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