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unsealed

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un·sealed

[uhn-seeld]
adjective
1.
not sealed; not stamped or marked with a seal: unsealed cargo.
2.
not shut or closed with or as if with a seal: an unsealed letter; an unsealed crate.
3.
not verified, certain, or confirmed: His fate was still unsealed.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English unseled; see un-1, seal1, -ed2

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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.
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un·seal

[uhn-seel]
verb (used with object)
1.
to break or remove the seal of; open, as something sealed or firmly closed: to unseal a letter; to unseal a tomb.
2.
to free from constraint, as a person's thought, speech, or behavior: Their friendship unsealed her vivacity.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English unselen; see un-2, seal1

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unsealed (ʌnˈsiːld)
 
adj
1.  not sealed
2.  (Austral), (NZ) (of a road) surfaced with road metal not bound by bitumen or other sealant

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unseal
early 15c., from un- (2) + seal (v.). Cf. M.Du. ontsegelen, O.H.G. intsigilan. Related: Unsealed (late 14c.).
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