Usually means: Turn to loosen or remove.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word unscrew:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. unscrew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unscrew: Merriam-Webster
  3. unscrew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unscrew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unscrew: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unscrew: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unscrew, unscrew: Wordnik
  8. unscrew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unscrew: Wiktionary
  10. unscrew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unscrew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unscrew: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unscrew: Dictionary.com
  14. unscrew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Unscrew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. unscrew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. unscrew: Rhymezone
  18. unscrew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. unscrew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. unscrew: FreeDictionary.org
  21. unscrew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. unscrew: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unscrew: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unscrew: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Unscrew: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

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