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Discover LudwigThe word 'unlatch' is a correct and usable word in written English.
The verb 'unlatch' means to release or open a latch, which is a fastening for a door, gate, or lid. Example: "Please remember to unlatch the door before you leave."
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unlatch
verb
Remove from a latch
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There is no visible means of access on the new McLaren MP4-12C; to unlatch the door, one sweeps a hand under a ridge that extends forward from the rear air scoops.
The investigation into Graco child restraints that began late last year involved complaints that buckles on the seat were too difficult to unlatch and in some cases required cutting straps to free the child.
I stick the car with a few others in an outbuilding and as I unlatch the gate Angela Nicholl appears at the front door... she'll get me tea and crumpets but would I like to get a walk in before dark?
I am living on the top floor at Ninety-third Street, where the bathroom connects via an odd skylight airshaft to my father's bathroom, directly below, and sometimes in the morning I silently unlatch the little window there and listen to my father talking to himself while he shaves.
He once stole the lever at the top of the stairs in my apartment building, which you pulled to unlatch the front door without making the long descent.
Maybe doing so will release a spring in the drawer that will open up a secret panel that will reveal a key that will unlock the safe that contains the marble you need to drop into the maze on the wall to unlatch the lock on the window and set you free.
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Light-water reactors are refueled by removing the reactor head after lowering and unlatching the safety rods in the case of a PWR.
Overnight technicians had been servicing the plane the night before, and took a break, leaving the fan cowl doors on both engines unlatched.
The area was enclosed by a slanted canopy of partitioned glass, and I unlatched a panel and swung it open.
Here's what I did: I asked the main dope to let me use his bathroom (we were in front of his apartment) and while I pretended to piss I unlatched the window.
Stephen cruelly criticizes her habit of italicizing words ( a takeoff on the Cosmopolitan practice) Stephen then unlatches the trunk, out of which emerges another woman.
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