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unfastened

[uhn-fas-uhn, -fah-suhn] Origin

un·fas·ten

[uhn-fas-uhn, -fah-suhn]
verb (used with object)
1.
to release from or as from fastenings; detach.
2.
to undo or open (something fastened).
verb (used without object)
3.
to become unfastened.

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Unfastened is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English unfastnen. See un-2, fasten
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Word Origin & History

unfasten
early 13c., from un- (2) + fasten.
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