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unbolting

unbolting is the present participle and gerund of unbolt.

Meaning of unbolt

Verb

unbolt (third-person singular simple present unbolts, present participle unbolting, simple past and past participle unbolted)

  1. (transitive) To unlock by undoing the bolts of.
    • Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down;
      He shall unbolt the gates.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about unbolting

What is unbolting the present participle and gerund of?
Unbolting is the present participle and gerund of unbolt.

Words near unbolting in the dictionary

  1. unbolstered
  2. unbolstering
  3. unbolsters
  4. unbolt
  5. unbolted
  6. unbolting
  7. unbolts
  8. unbombable
  9. unbombarded
  10. unbombast
  11. unbombasted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbolting (page history and authors); unbolt (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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