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# unlatched

«unlatched» in Mova's school dictionary: **to lift the catch or latch of a door or gate so that it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (unlatch, unlatches, unlatched, unlatching); the word here is the past form, used as an adjective or past tense

### meaning for a pupil

To unlatch is to lift the catch or latch of a door or gate so that it opens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unlatched/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character opens a gate or door quickly and runs off

### examples

- She unlatched the gate and ran into the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unlatched/#x1)
- The door was unlatched, so we just walked in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unlatched/#x2)
- He unlatched the box and looked inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unlatched/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unlatched» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unlatched/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.