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unballing

unballing is the present participle and gerund of unball.

Meaning of unball

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

Questions about unballing

What is unballing the present participle and gerund of?
Unballing is the present participle and gerund of unball.

Words near unballing in the dictionary

  1. unballasted
  2. unballasting
  3. unballasts
  4. unballed
  5. unballetic
  6. unballing
  7. unballoted
  8. unballs
  9. unbalmy
  10. unbalustraded
  11. unbamboozled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unballing (page history and authors); 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.

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