desencuadernar

v.

to unbind, to take off the binding of a book.

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desencuadernar

► verbo transitivo

1 to unbind

► verbo pronominal desencuadernarse

1 to come unbound

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1.

VT to unbind

2.

See:

desencuadernarse

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= unbind, disbind.

Ex. A report is given on a research project commissioned by the British Library to strengthen brittle paper without unbinding the books.

Ex. Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.

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= unbind, disbind.

Ex: A report is given on a research project commissioned by the British Library to strengthen brittle paper without unbinding the books.

Ex: Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.

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desencuadernar [A1 ]

vt

‹libro› to unbind, take apart

■ desencuadernarse

v pron

«libro» to lose its binding, fall apart

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desencuadernar

♦ vt

to unbind

♦ See also the pronominal verb desencuadernarse