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unboarded

unboarded is the simple past and past participle of unboard.

Meaning of unboard

Verb

unboard (third-person singular simple present unboards, present participle unboarding, simple past and past participle unboarded)

  1. (ambitransitive) To leave a passenger vehicle such as a train or ship; to disembark.
  2. To remove boards from.
    • Bitterne: The Railway Heritage Trust has made a second grant, this time for £25,466, for station restoration works. The money will be spent on unboarding and restoring the windows, and on preserving historic paint details.2024 March 6, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Southern”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 26

Adjective

unboarded (not comparable)

  1. Not boarded.
    • Those who sit on the unboarded and unpaved floor beside the wall, and who look on so wistfully, have nothing to cook — nothing to eat; they paid the last penny or twopence they possessed to be allowed to sleep on the floor of that cellar until morning.1852, Thomas Miller, Picturesque sketches of London: past and present, page 235

Origin of unboarded

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From un- + boarded.

Questions about unboarded

What does unboarded mean?
Unboarded means not boarded.
What is unboarded the simple past and past participle of?
Unboarded is the simple past and past participle of unboard.
What part of speech is unboarded?
Unboarded is an adjective.

Words near unboarded in the dictionary

  1. unblushing
  2. unblushingly
  3. unblushingness
  4. unblustery
  5. unboard
  6. unboarded
  7. unboarding
  8. unboards
  9. unboasted
  10. unboastful
  11. unboastfully

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unboarded (page history and authors); unboard (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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