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unbed

unbed verb: to raise or rouse from bed.

Verb

unbed (third-person singular simple present unbeds, present participle unbedding, simple past and past participle unbedded)

  1. (transitive) To raise or rouse from bed.
    • Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder.1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The...

Forms of unbed

third-person singular presentunbeds
present participleunbedding
past participleunbedded
pastunbedded

Origin of unbed

From un- + bed.

Questions about unbed

What does unbed mean?
Unbed means to raise or rouse from bed.
What part of speech is unbed?
Unbed is a verb.
What is the past tense of unbed?
The past tense of unbed is unbedded.

Words near unbed in the dictionary

  1. unbecomes
  2. unbecoming
  3. unbecomingly
  4. unbecomingness
  5. unbecomings
  6. unbed
  7. unbedaubed
  8. unbedded
  9. unbedding
  10. unbedecked
  11. unbedeviled

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