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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest..
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.
Use unstay when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unstay means (transitive) To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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