unturn

verb

unturn

verb

Etymology From un- + turn.

1

To turn in a reverse way, especially so as to open something.

to unturn a key
Think you he nought but prison walls did see, Till, so unwilling, thou unturn'dst the key ?1817, John Keats, Sonnet written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison:

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