Usually means: Untie or loosen laces, strings.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word unlace:

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unlace)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To loosen the clothing of (a person).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove (film) from a projector.

Similar:
unbrace, untie, unlash, unsneck, unty, untangle, unlay, unlasso, loosen, unloop, more...

Opposite:
lace up, tie, fasten

Types:
to unlace, to untie, more...


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Similar:
unbrace, untie, unlash, unsneck, unty, untangle, unlay, unlasso, loosen, unloop, more...

Opposite:
lace up, tie, fasten

Types:
to unlace, to untie, more...



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