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unhook

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Meaning

To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.

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Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. Rita Coolidge

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable. Zadie Smith

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. Sonia Sotomayor

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that. Josh Radnor

The flat hooks that adhere to the ceiling are clear so that you can unhook the system and not have noticeable squares above you, and each retractable cable has a carabiner on the end of it to allow for easy cable hookup. Source: Internet

While the other guides unhook the dogs, Justin shows us to the back of the property, where three-week old puppies huddle together atop wood shavings in a painted, square box. Source: Internet

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