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unbark

unbark verb: to deprive or strip of the bark.

Verb

unbark (third-person singular simple present unbarks, present participle unbarking, simple past and past participle unbarked)

  1. To deprive or strip of the bark.
    • to unbark a tree
    • Unbark'd branch of a tree1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To disembark; to make land.
    • Where they […] doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Forms of unbark

third-person singular presentunbarks
present participleunbarking
past participleunbarked
pastunbarked

Origin of unbark

From un- + bark.

Questions about unbark

What does unbark mean?
Unbark means to deprive or strip of the bark.
What part of speech is unbark?
Unbark is a verb.
What is the past tense of unbark?
The past tense of unbark is unbarked.

Words near unbark in the dictionary

  1. unbared
  2. unbares
  3. unbargainable
  4. unbargained-for
  5. unbaring
  6. unbark
  7. unbarked
  8. unbarking
  9. unbarks
  10. unbarnacled
  11. unbaronial

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