unscrew

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ screw.

Verb

unscrew (third-person singular simple present unscrews, present participle unscrewing, simple past and past participle unscrewed)

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

   I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.

Antonyms

• screw

Translations

loosen a screw etc.

• Bulgarian: отвивам (bg) (otvivam), развинтвам (bg) (razvintvam)
• Danish: skrue ud
• Finnish: ruuvata auki (of screws); kiertää auki (of something else, like a lid)
• French: dévisser (fr)
• Galician: desaparafusar
• German: abschrauben (de), losschrauben (de)
• Ido: desskrubagar (io), desvisar (io)
• Italian: svitare (it)
• Mongolian: эрэг сулрах (ereg sulrax)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skru ut

• Polish: odkręcać
• Portuguese: desaparafusar, desparafusar
• Romanian: deșuruba (ro)
• Spanish: desatornillar (es), destornillar (es), desenroscar (es)