0 present participle of unscrew
1 to take the lid or top off something by twisting it round:
2 to remove something by taking the screws out of it
The fuze was worked by the user first unscrewing a plastic cap to expose a long, narrow cloth streamer with a curved lead weight attached to the end.
In the event the submarine needed additional buoyancy to rise in an emergency, the iron weight could be removed by unscrewing the heads of the bolts from inside the vessel.
Komodo transforms to keep them unscrewing.
Remembering that his attacker began unscrewing the grating over the air vent prior to the attack, he removes the cover to discover what lies within it.
That is also the common way of coupling locomotives to or from wagons, faster than unscrewing the link.
One of his aphorisms was unscrewing the inscrutable to describe a deliberate and careful thought process on complex matters.
Unscrewing the finials yielded maps of the surrounding area.
The cover of cylinder can be removed by unscrewing the bolts.
