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unbloating

unbloating is the present participle and gerund of unbloat.

Meaning of unbloat

Verb

unbloat (third-person singular simple present unbloats, present participle unbloating, simple past and past participle unbloated)

  1. (transitive) To relieve the bloatedness of.
    • When we came back in the evening she would be bitter and spiteful and get bloated on purpose, and Cal and I would have to run her up and down until long after dark to unbloat her.1967, The American West, page 28
  2. (intransitive) To cease being bloated.
    • Now, the unbearable heat broken, awnings unbloat, locusts crank up their battery-green volts and I climb the stairs1988, Crazyhorse - Issues 34-37, page 13

Questions about unbloating

What is unbloating the present participle and gerund of?
Unbloating is the present participle and gerund of unbloat.

Words near unbloating in the dictionary

  1. unblistered
  2. unblithe
  3. unblitzed
  4. unbloat
  5. unbloated
  6. unbloating
  7. unbloats
  8. unblock
  9. unblockable
  10. unblockables
  11. unblockaded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbloating (page history and authors); unbloat (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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