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Unseam vs Unseal - What's the difference?

unseam | unseal |

As verbs the difference between unseam and unseal

is that unseam is to open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open while unseal is to break the seal of (something) in order to open it.

unseam

English

Verb

  • To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.
    • Quotation
  • :* 1603-06': "...Till he '''unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements." — ''Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc2, Wm. Shakespeare.

    • unseal

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.

    • Derived terms

    * unsealer * unsealing