Unseal

Definition: Unseal

Unseal

Verb

1. Break the seal of; "He unsealed the letter".

Date "unseal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Antonym: seal (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disclosure	Verb: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Unseal" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unseal" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	60%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	40%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unseal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhdyllos, hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unshutter, unwrap, walk), çvulos. (various references)

Arabic		‏فتح (conquer, conquest, open, switch on, turn on, unbar, unblock, unclose, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unzip), ‏فض الختم عن. (various references)

Bulgarian		разпечатвам (open), отварям (blow in, break out, open, open up, put up, tear open, throw in, throw open, turn on, unbolt, undo, unstop, unwrap). (various references)

Czech		rozpeèetit, otevřít (begin, inaugurate, open, start, start up, throw, unbar, unbolt, unclose, uncork, undo, unlock). (various references)

Dutch		verwijderen van loodjes (to unseal). (various references)

Farsi		مهرچیزی راگشودن , مهرچیزی راشکستن . (various references)

French		ouvrir (unbar, unbolt, undo, unfasten, unlatch, unlock, unstop, untwist, unwrap, unzip), desceller, décacheter. (various references)

German		entsiegeln. (various references)

Greek		ξεβουλώνω (unblock, unstop), αποσφραγίζω. (various references)

Hungarian		felbont (resolve, to break down, to break up, to dissolve, to ravel, to ravel out, to unfold, undo, unfold, unpick). (various references)

Indonesian		membuka segel. (various references)

Pig Latin		ealunsay

Portuguese		tirar o selo a, quebrar o lacre a, abrir (barge, cut, cut up, dehisce, deploy, ditch, drift, frank, free, let by, open, open up, peck, rip, rive, spread, to open, unbar, unclasp, unclench, unclose, undraw, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unstrap). (various references)

Romanian		deschide (break away, broach, commence, crack, cut, indict, lead, lead off, let in, open, open up, start, uncork, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unstop). (various references)

Russian		распечатывать (list, print out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		raspečatiti, otpečatiti. (various references)

Swedish		bryta sigillet på. (various references)

Turkish		mührünü açmak, açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unveil, utter, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unseal": unsealed, unsealing, unseals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unseal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fnsea, Munkedal, nusea, undealt, unea, unkeel, unseak, unsear, unsoil, unsual, unveal, unzee, Usnea. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unseal" (pronounced unsē"l)
5	u n s ē" l	conceal.
3	-s ē" l	reseal, seal, Seel.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: elans, lanes, leans, lunas, lunes, ulans, ulnae, ulnas, usnea.
	-2 letters: ales, anes, anus, elan, lane, lase, lean, leas, lens, lues, luna, lune, sale, sane, saul, seal, slue, ulan, ulna.
	-3 letters: ale, als, ane, eau, els, ens, las, lea, leu, nae, nus, sae, sal, sau, sea, sel, sen, sue, sun, uns, use.
	-4 letters: ae, al.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: angelus, censual, eluants, inulase, lacunes, lagunes, langues, launces, nebulas, sensual, unlaces, unlades, unleads, unleash, unseals.
	+2 letters: abluents, albumens, aleurons, alumines, alunites, angulose, annulets, annulose, apolunes, bluesman, cleanups, euglenas, flaneurs, funerals, granules, gunwales, insulate, inulases, juvenals, lacunose, languets, launches, launders, lauwines, lucarnes, lunacies, lurdanes, melanous, mensural, neurosal, neurulas, neutrals, nuclease, numerals, purslane, quinelas, scalenus, spinulae, squalene, subpanel, supernal, uneasily, unequals, unlashed, unlashes, unlearns, unleased, unravels, unsaddle, unsafely, unsalted, unscaled, unsealed, unsexual, unslaked, unstable, unusable.
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