unclose

From un- +‎ close.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkləʊz/

unclose (third-person singular simple present uncloses, present participle unclosing, simple past and past participle unclosed)

1. (transitive, poetic) To open; to unclench.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.112:

     His eyes he opened, shut, again unclosed, / For all was doubt and dizziness […]

   • Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Triumph of Life

     All flowers in field or forest which unclose
     Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,
     Swinging their censers in the element,
     With orient incense lit by the new ray
     Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent
     Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air […]

• conules, counsel, leucons