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unhands

  • present tense form
    of unhand (3rd person singular).
    unhand
    verb (used with object)
    to take the hand or hands from; release from a grasp; let go.

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Theo immediately unhands me, putting his palms in the air to show he has no intention of touching me again and looking worried and baffled at once.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

When the habit of books becomes the habit of a man he unhands himself at will from space and time; he finds the universe is his universe.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee

Gower unhands her, and, lifting one side of his would-be blind, regards her fixedly.

From The Hoyden by Duchess

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