unclose

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   archaic or literary: to open, become open, or release from a closed position

   At dusk, she watched the night-blooming flower unclose.

Formed in Middle English from un-, the reversal prefix, + close. The literal sense is 'reverse the act of closing'; older writers also used it figuratively for disclosing or revealing something hidden.

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