Unlocking

Definitions

gerund of unlock: the act by which something is unlocked.

form-of, gerund

Equivalents

Examples

“She had heard him, more than once, lock⟳ something up in one of the rooms—come⟳ out, and go into another room—wait⟳ there a few minutes—then return⟳ to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn⟳ the locks, and turn⟳ them again. […] [I]t was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence, and which tormented him with a sense⟳ of oppression, new to the experience⟳ of his later years.”

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