UNCLOSES Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

uncloses

verb

present tense third-person singular of unclose

as in opens

to change from a closed to an open position one nurse closed the window in my room, and a minute later another nurse unclosed it

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opens

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Saturday’s game opens a stretch of nine consecutive weeks of football for Kansas — no additional byes the rest of the way.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
The show opens with a handful of personal objects tracing Pavarotti’s unlikely path from Belém, a port city on the edge of the Amazon, to Paris.

— Alison S. Cohn, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

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unclosing

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