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third-person singular simple present unbuttons, present participle unbuttoning, simple past and past participle unbuttoned
(transitive, intransitive) To open (something) by undoing its buttons. quotations examples
Being now too high wound up to bear a delay, he unbutton'd, and drawing out the engine of love-assaults, drove it currently, as at a ready-made breach
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]
(intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened. quotations examples
He was so muscled and firm, and the canvas shirt under his jacket unbuttoned easily.
2010, Janet Chapman, Tempt Me If You Can, page 70