unseam

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UK/ʌnˈsiːm/Canada, US/ʌnˈsim/Australia, New Zealand/ɐnˈsiːm/

verb

To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open.

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Meanings

verbunseam (third-person singular simple present unseams, present participle unseaming, simple past and past participle unseamed)

present singular third person unseams · participle present unseaming · participle past unseamed · past unseamed

  1. transitiveTo open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open.

    Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

Origin

From un- + seam.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with unseam

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Cite this entry
APA

unseam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseam

MLA

“unseam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseam. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unseam,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseam.

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