Past tense of unroll
regular verb
The past tense of unroll is unrolled. The past participle is also unrolled.
Forms of unroll
| Base form (V1) | unroll |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | unrolled |
| Past participle (V3) | unrolled |
| Present participle | unrolling |
| Third person singular | unrolls |
Unrolled in a sentence
- Then unrolled his wet trouser pants, water dripping down his ankles, heat pinkening his skin.2025, Hannah Linder, The Red Cottage, Barbour Publishing, Incorporated. From the entry pinken
- The individual plies are then unrolled and each separated at the transverse perforations to provide separate stationery forms.1973, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 583. From the entry deleave
- He unrolled the message that he had set aside earlier.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC…. From the entry doubleplusungood
- The violins were muted, the hands were gloved, carpets were unrolled forever under the feet, and the gardens cottoned the sound from the world.1976, John Tytell, Harold Jaffe, Affinities: A Short Story Anthology, →ISBN. From the entry cotton
- Reluctantly Bradly unrolled the canvas, which the trooper took from him to hold at arm's length, shutting one eye and crocking his neck sideways in a severe exercise of connoisseurship.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 155. From the entry connoisseurship
Meaning of unroll
- verb To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
- verb To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
- verb To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.
Questions about the past tense of unroll
- What is the past tense of unroll?
- The past tense of unroll is unrolled.
- What is the past participle of unroll?
- The past participle of unroll is unrolled.
- Is unroll a regular or irregular verb?
- Unroll is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
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