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unchest en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + chest.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To remove from a chest.
   • [He] greeted Blowitz with warmth and apologized for having failed in his joint request with Hohenlohe to get Bismarck to unchest the Treaty. 1974, Frank Giles, A Prince of Journalists, page 110:
   • In the Christmas holidays I unchested the chested books, and put them into the drawing-room, where they are often aired by good fires. 1905, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, page 94:

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