Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To break or remove the seal of; open.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To open (a thing) after it has been sealed; free from a seal; hence, to open, in a general sense. To disclose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed.
- transitive verb obsolete To disclose, as a secret.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To break the
seal of (something) in order to open it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb break the seal of
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Examples
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Somewhere in those 80 million pages or in the military archives that current Guatemalan president Álvaro Colom has promised to unseal is the evidence that could finally bring Ríos Montt and his cronies to justice.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010
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Somewhere in those 80 million pages or in the military archives that current Guatemalan president Ãlvaro Colom has promised to unseal is the evidence that could finally bring RÃos Montt and his cronies to justice.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010
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Do not try to "unseal" the door by using a hair dryer, cigarette lighter, ice pick, screwdriver, propane torch or portable heater.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2009
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Do not try to "unseal" the door by using a hair dryer, cigarette lighter, ice pick, screwdriver, propane torch or portable heater.
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Do not try to "unseal" the door by using a hair dryer, cigarette lighter, ice pick, screwdriver, propane torch or portable heater.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2009
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Do not try to "unseal" the door by using a hair dryer, cigarette lighter, ice pick, screwdriver, propane torch or portable heater.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2009
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Do not try to "unseal" the door by using a hair dryer, cigarette lighter, ice pick, screwdriver, propane torch or portable heater.
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Do not try to "unseal" the door by using a hair dryer, cigarette lighter, ice pick, screwdriver, propane torch or portable heater.
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Getting a sympathetic judge to "unseal" a political opponent's divorce papers and publicizing any weird or dirty details therein has been Obama's very best trick to winning elections these past few years.
Latest Articles 2008
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Other matters that had been on today's agenda included requests by the U.S. Attorney's Office to have Loughner submit handwriting samples; a request by defense attorneys to bar release of Bureau of Prisons records on Loughner; and motions by The Arizona Republic and 12 News to unseal search warrant materials and documents that have been filed under seal to date.
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