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despun

despun is the simple past and past participle of despin.

Meaning of despin

Verb

despin (third-person singular simple present despins, present participle despinning, simple past and past participle despun)

  1. To stop or slow rotation.

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Questions about despun

What is despun the simple past and past participle of?
Despun is the simple past and past participle of despin.

Words near despun in the dictionary

  1. despumation
  2. despumations
  3. despume
  4. despumed
  5. despuming
  6. despun
  7. desquamate
  8. desquamated
  9. desquamates
  10. desquamating
  11. desquamation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: despun (page history and authors); despin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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