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unacquainting

unacquainting is the present participle and gerund of unacquaint.

Meaning of unacquaint

Verb

unacquaint (third-person singular simple present unacquaints, present participle unacquainting, simple past and past participle unacquainted)

  1. (rare) To undo (one's or someone's) acquaintance (with someone or something).
    • he […] is a scoundrel, and I'm going to unacquaint myself with him.1993, Mothers and Daughters

Questions about unacquainting

What is unacquainting the present participle and gerund of?
Unacquainting is the present participle and gerund of unacquaint.

Words near unacquainting in the dictionary

  1. unacquaintable
  2. unacquaintance
  3. unacquainted
  4. unacquaintedly
  5. unacquaintedness
  6. unacquainting
  7. unacquaints
  8. unacquiescent
  9. unacquirable
  10. unacquire
  11. unacquired

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unacquainting (page history and authors); unacquaint (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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