cut loose, cut off, break in pieces

Barber 1979

to rip out stitches, to unstitch

Mintz and Britanico 1985

to cut, tear, rip something (as cloth, paper, galvanized iron sheets, including when the item is divided in two)

Ballard 2011

unstitch

for someone to clear a field of old sweet potato vines with a digging trowel or digging bar

Lambrecht 1978

to unravel; tear, rip garments; demolish; undo crochet work by pulling the string

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

to undo the sewing/tying material

Yamada 1976

to unstitch, to undo the sewing/tying material

Yamada 1976

to cut off

Antonissen 1958

pull apart a palm leaf roof, pull apart the stitches; cut a hole in the wall

Neumann 1951

ended, cut off

Zoetmulder 1982

to cut or tear stitches so as to open a seam, hem, etc.

Hassan, Ashley and Ashley 1994

to break off, tear up

Warneck 1977