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unbolstering

unbolstering is the present participle and gerund of unbolster.

Meaning of unbolster

Verb

unbolster (third-person singular simple present unbolsters, present participle unbolstering, simple past and past participle unbolstered)

  1. (transitive) To remove the support from.
    • What can unbolster a man whose trust in his morality, or pious education, or social virtues, props him up to a fancied superiority to the provisions of the Gospel; what, but the truth, […]?1859, Gregory Thurston Bedell, Fellow Workers: Two Sermons, page 36

Questions about unbolstering

What is unbolstering the present participle and gerund of?
Unbolstering is the present participle and gerund of unbolster.

Words near unbolstering in the dictionary

  1. unboldly
  2. unbolds
  3. unbolled
  4. unbolster
  5. unbolstered
  6. unbolstering
  7. unbolsters
  8. unbolt
  9. unbolted
  10. unbolting
  11. unbolts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbolstering (page history and authors); unbolster (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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