ajar

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.Examples: "A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door."; "Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already."; "Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road."rare