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unlatch

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un·latch  (n-lch)
v. un·latched, un·latch·ing, un·latch·es
v.tr.
To unfasten or open by releasing the latch.
v.intr.
To become unfastened or opened.

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The patience of waiting, when he wanted to go home and when Steward continued to sit at table and talk and drink beer, was his, as was the patience of the rope around the neck, the fence too high to scale, the narrowed- walled room with the closed door which he could never unlatch but which humans unlatched so easily.
There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an unknown man and insult a noble woman whose boots they are not fitted to unlatch.
 
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