Dictionary

unnest en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + nest.

Meanings

1. To dislodge from a nest.
2. To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
   • The eye unnested from the head, cannot see 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
   • She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray. 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

Forms

Synonyms

unnestle · disnest