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un·hand

 (ŭn-hănd′)
tr.v. un·hand·ed, un·hand·ing, un·hands
To remove one's hand from; let go.
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unhand

(ʌnˈhænd)
vb
(tr) archaic or literary to release from the grasp
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un•hand

(ʌnˈhænd)

v.t.
to take the hand or hands from; release from a grasp; let go.
[1595–1605]
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unhand


Past participle: unhanded
Gerund: unhanding

Imperative
unhand
unhand
Present
I unhand
you unhand
he/she/it unhands
we unhand
you unhand
they unhand
Preterite
I unhanded
you unhanded
he/she/it unhanded
we unhanded
you unhanded
they unhanded
Present Continuous
I am unhanding
you are unhanding
he/she/it is unhanding
we are unhanding
you are unhanding
they are unhanding
Present Perfect
I have unhanded
you have unhanded
he/she/it has unhanded
we have unhanded
you have unhanded
they have unhanded
Past Continuous
I was unhanding
you were unhanding
he/she/it was unhanding
we were unhanding
you were unhanding
they were unhanding
Past Perfect
I had unhanded
you had unhanded
he/she/it had unhanded
we had unhanded
you had unhanded
they had unhanded
Future
I will unhand
you will unhand
he/she/it will unhand
we will unhand
you will unhand
they will unhand
Future Perfect
I will have unhanded
you will have unhanded
he/she/it will have unhanded
we will have unhanded
you will have unhanded
they will have unhanded
Future Continuous
I will be unhanding
you will be unhanding
he/she/it will be unhanding
we will be unhanding
you will be unhanding
they will be unhanding
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been unhanding
you have been unhanding
he/she/it has been unhanding
we have been unhanding
you have been unhanding
they have been unhanding
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been unhanding
you will have been unhanding
he/she/it will have been unhanding
we will have been unhanding
you will have been unhanding
they will have been unhanding
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been unhanding
you had been unhanding
he/she/it had been unhanding
we had been unhanding
you had been unhanding
they had been unhanding
Conditional
I would unhand
you would unhand
he/she/it would unhand
we would unhand
you would unhand
they would unhand
Past Conditional
I would have unhanded
you would have unhanded
he/she/it would have unhanded
we would have unhanded
you would have unhanded
they would have unhanded
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.unhand - remove the hand fromunhand - remove the hand from      
let go, let go of, release, relinquish - release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"
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Translations

unhand

[ʌnˈhænd] VT (o.f. or liter) → soltar
unhand me, sir!¡suélteme, señor!
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unhand

vt (old, hum)freigeben, loslassen
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There was a brisk wind blowing, and the beggar turned about to face it, directly they had unhanded him.
Had she haughtily unhanded him (and we should have loved to write it of her), she would have been hurled through the air like the others, and then Hook would probably not have been present at the tying of the children; and had he not been at the tying he would not have discovered Slightly's secret, and without the secret he could not presently have made his foul attempt on Peter's life.
Welcoming the cabinet members at the historic Landi Kotal meeting at Khyber Pass, the chief minister said that a new history was in the making finalising the development strategy and the spread of infrastructure for the efficient services and good governance for unhanded quality delivery to mainstream the people in the new areas in the national stream.
Condemned by the local priest to a hellish fate if such a practice is not stopped, the couple endures many sleepless nights, until the priest dies in a motor vehicle accident and is replaced by a new priest who "declare[s] the Church to be fully supportive of wifely testicle holding, so long as the testicles were unhanded by said lawful wife an hour before she took Communion, to show respect for the Eucharist" (27).
Macy's Bertelsen agreed that vendors have become more attuned to the desires of the 27-year-old bride, and that transitional patterns that are unhanded and easy to care for have experienced "dramatic growth."