unfastened

An old friend used to call these neither-here-nor-there realms the “zero world” for the way they feel unfastened from reality, parallel to daily life but separate.

He quickly unfastened the seat belt and dived over the front seat and out the chauffeur’s door.

The maintainers next unfastened the warhead from the missile and placed it in a specialized truck.

Very quietly, so as not to wake Abby, she unfastened the zip of the tent.

With her plane plunging through the air in flames, Tamara was thrown around so forcefully that at first she couldn’t get her seat belt unfastened so she could use her parachute.