UNKENNEL

Etymology

Verb

unkennel (third-person singular simple present unkennels, present participle unkennelling or unkenneling, simple past and past participle unkennelled or unkenneled)

(transitive) To scare out from a lair or a den.

(transitive) To let (dogs) out of a kennel.

(figurative, ambitransitive) To reveal, uncover or unfold.

In censure of his seeming.

Source: Wiktionary


Un*ken"nel, v. t. Etym: [1st un- + kennel.]

1. To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.

2. Fig.: To discover; to disclose. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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