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unadapting

unadapting is the present participle and gerund of unadapt.

Meaning of unadapt

Verb

unadapt (third-person singular simple present unadapts, present participle unadapting, simple past and past participle unadapted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.
    • It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]2015, Joe McElhaney, A Companion to Fritz Lang, page 189

Questions about unadapting

What is unadapting the present participle and gerund of?
Unadapting is the present participle and gerund of unadapt.

Words near unadapting in the dictionary

  1. unadaptable
  2. unadaptableness
  3. unadaptably
  4. unadapted
  5. unadaptedness
  6. unadapting
  7. unadaptive
  8. unadaptiveness
  9. unadapts
  10. unadd
  11. unaddable

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