unbutton
verb (used with object)
to free (buttons) from buttonholes; unfasten or undo.
were unbuttoning
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past progressiveof unbutton.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Each passenger received his property, and pulling open his chest with as much composure as if he were unbuttoning his waistcoat, restored his stomach, with a dinner in it, to the right position.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
More than this—astonishingly more—his head was upon her lap, his face and neck were disagreeably wet, and her fingers were unbuttoning his collar.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
