† renodev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To untie, undo.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > loosen, unfasten, or untie [verb (transitive)]
unbindc950
undoc950
unleeseOE
breaka1225
unfest?c1225
leesea1325
loosena1382
unloosea1382
loose1388
resolvea1398
unlace?c1400
unfastenc1440
unloosen?a1475
to let slip1526
unbrace?1526
diffibulatea1538
unframe1567
unclit1587
undight1590
unclip1598
unclenchc1600
unreeve1600
unlock1609
ungrapple1611
unquilt1611
abstringe1623
renode1623
unspan1648
unfast1684
disengage1780
undub1807
unclap1846
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Renode, to vnknit.
1671 T. Shadwell Humorists ii. 15 Our Chast Flames of Sympathetick Amity, are mutually continuate; whose perpetuity no Snake hair'd destiny nor Furies-Furiband nor the ghastly Ghosts of Central Nigritude, with all their damn'd infernal Powers, can e'r evert, renode, or dissolve.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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