Word.ws English Dictionary

unball

unball verb: to release (the fists, etc.) from a balled shape.

Verb

unball (third-person singular simple present unballs, present participle unballing, simple past and past participle unballed)

  1. (transitive) To release (the fists, etc.) from a balled shape.
  2. (intransitive) To recover one's original shape from a balled stance.
    • And just like he unballed, my multilingual hedgehog pal balls right back up into the safety of his disguise.2014, Chris Lynch, Cyberia

Forms of unball

third-person singular presentunballs
present participleunballing
past participleunballed
pastunballed

Origin of unball

From un- + ball.

Questions about unball

What does unball mean?
Unball means to release (the fists, etc.) from a balled shape.
What part of speech is unball?
Unball is a verb.
What is the past tense of unball?
The past tense of unball is unballed.

Words near unball in the dictionary

  1. unbaled
  2. unbaleful
  3. unbales
  4. unbaling
  5. unbalked
  6. unball
  7. unballast
  8. unballasted
  9. unballasting
  10. unballasts
  11. unballed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unball (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unball.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unball. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.