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Meaning of unstay | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest.
    transitive
  2. To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid.
    transitive

Examples

“He plays with the late Watts-Dunton and gets good fun out of it; he rips open the sham, unstays the imperfect, sonnet ; he tackles all fretters of the great English instrument and worries them all, yet with a fine sanity.”
“"[...] And true it is that the life of man is in the hands of God; and the state of kingdoms doth also belong to Him, to stay or to unstay them." All men had clearly foreseen that Edward's death would beget the evils of a disputed succession.”
“Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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