Unsolders

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To remove by detaching soldered joints or connections; to separate components joined by melted metal; to undo the bonding of metallic parts secured by soldering
2. To disconnect by eliminating solder bonds; to release parts fixed together by melted alloy; to dismantle elements previously united through soldering
3. To disengage by breaking soldered fastening; to take apart items attached via melted solder; to reverse the process of joining metal pieces with soldering material

Etymology: "Unsolders" is the third-person singular present form of "unsolder", a verb built simply from the prefix "un-" and the verb "solder". The prefix here carries its ordinary sense of reversing an action, so to unsolder is to undo a soldered join, separating parts that were fixed together by melted metal. The base verb "solder" is the word doing the real work. Its ancestry runs back through Middle English and Old French, and the prefix "un-" is an Old English element that English speakers have attached freely to verbs for centuries to mean "undo" or "reverse". Because "un-" was productive in this way, speakers could form "unsolder" from an existing verb without needing a separate, specialised coinage.

Synonyms: desolders, removes solder, detaches

Antonyms: soldiers, solders, attaches, joins