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  • verb Present participle of unbind.

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Examples

  • And the standers-by, in unbinding him, would handle him, and see him, that it was he himself, and so be witnesses of the miracle.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Among other flavors I recognized bindweed, which might as well be called the unbinding weed.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Among other flavors I recognized bindweed, which might as well be called the unbinding weed.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Among other flavors I recognized bindweed, which might as well be called the unbinding weed.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I had tried "unbinding" and "rebinding" the machine to AD, which didn't work.

    MacWindows 2008

  • But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second.

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Most of the men were suffering from tired feet, and they prefaced the meal by removing their shoes and unbinding the filthy rags with which their feet were wrapped.

    THE SPIKE 2010

  • This descent to the dark powers, this unbinding of spirits by nature bound, dubious embraces and whatever else may go on below, of which one no longer knows anything above ground, when in the sunlight one writes stories.

    Kafka 2010

  • After removing the silk ribbon and unbinding the sewing, I dry-cleaned each page carefully.

    Before & After: 1807 Land Agreement from the Louis H. Carpenter Collection « Fondly, Pennsylvania: Notes from Archives and Conservation 2010

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