Antonyms of verb unsheathe

1 sense of unsheathe

Sense 1
unsheathe -- (draw from a sheath or scabbard; "the knight unsheathed his sword")
       Antonym of sheathe (Sense 2)
      => sheathe -- (enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb unsheathe

1 sense of unsheathe

Sense 1
unsheathe -- (draw from a sheath or scabbard; "the knight unsheathed his sword")
       => draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out -- (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim")

Antonyms of adj unsheathed

1 sense of unsheathed

Sense 1
unsheathed (vs. sheathed), bare -- (not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade")

sheathed (vs. unsheathed) -- (enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed")
        => cased, encased, incased -- (covered or protected with or as if with a case; "knights cased in steel"; "products encased in leatherette")
        => clad -- (having an outer covering especially of thin metal; "steel-clad"; "armor-clad")
        => ironclad -- (sheathed in iron plates for protection)
        => podlike -- (resembling a pod)

Similarity of adj unsheathed

1 sense of unsheathed

Sense 1
unsheathed (vs. sheathed), bare -- (not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade")

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