unnest
verbEtymology From un- + nest.
1
To dislodge from a nest.
2
To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
- The eye unnested from the head, cannot see1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
- She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
- Synonyms
- unnestle