undock

Verb

Verb Forms: undocked, undocking, undocks

• To move a ship or spacecraft away from a dock or station.
• move out of a dock
• take (a ship) out of a dock
  • "undock the ship"
• To remove (a ship) from a dock.
• To remove (a ship) from a dock.
• To depart a spaceship from a dock/berth/mount/mooring under its own power
• To remove from a docking station.
• To drag (a user interface element, such as a toolbar) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely.

Examples

• After I undock my laptop, I can run it for about six hours on battery power.
• He needed to undock his ’Z’ from its awkward position to make a viable Scrabble play.

Antonyms

dock