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unbelling

unbelling is the present participle and gerund of unbell.

Meaning of unbell

Verb

unbell (third-person singular simple present unbells, present participle unbelling, simple past and past participle unbelled)

  1. (transitive) To remove a bell from.
    • I was sent to unbell the lead mare, who gave no alarm as I crept among the woolly gray and brown animals through the mule smell and grass smell and the sound of fluttering lips and dropping manure. I removed the bell from the mare […]1983, Laurence Gonzales, El Vago, page 56

Questions about unbelling

What is unbelling the present participle and gerund of?
Unbelling is the present participle and gerund of unbell.

Words near unbelling in the dictionary

  1. unbelled
  2. unbellicose
  3. unbellied
  4. unbelligerent
  5. unbelligerently
  6. unbelling
  7. unbells
  8. unbelonging
  9. unbeloved
  10. unbelt
  11. unbelted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbelling (page history and authors); unbell (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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