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unbarked

unbarked is the simple past and past participle of unbark.

Adjective

unbarked (not comparable)

  1. Without bark (tree covering).
  2. Not having been barked or abraded.
    • If you have any one to guide you, and to say "look out" at the proper moment, you may go up with an unbarked shin; […]1967, Desmond Ryan, The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens, page 47

Meaning of unbark

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
  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

Questions about unbarked

What does unbarked mean?
Unbarked means without bark (tree covering).
What is unbarked the simple past and past participle of?
Unbarked is the simple past and past participle of unbark.
What part of speech is unbarked?
Unbarked is an adjective.

Words near unbarked in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbarked (page history and authors); unbark (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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