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unbombast

unbombast verb: to take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing).

Verb

unbombast (third-person singular simple present unbombasts, present participle unbombasting, simple past and past participle unbombasted)

  1. (rare, transitive) To take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing).
    • We wish Mr. Rafinesque to understand, that when any pseudo scientific publication is published here, calculated to mislead at home, and to discredit the country abroad, we shall proceed to unbombast it as soon as our leisure permits.1969, The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science, page 515
    • Earlier in the year he had written to Backhouse, 'will it not then be singularly hard if we cannot find time to unbombast the impudence of the matchless Jonathan?'Quoted in: 1999, Dawn Currie, Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers (page 11)

Forms of unbombast

third-person singular presentunbombasts
present participleunbombasting
past participleunbombasted
pastunbombasted

Origin of unbombast

From un- + bombast.

Questions about unbombast

What does unbombast mean?
Unbombast means to take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing).
What part of speech is unbombast?
Unbombast is a verb.
What is the past tense of unbombast?
The past tense of unbombast is unbombasted.

Words near unbombast in the dictionary

  1. unbolted
  2. unbolting
  3. unbolts
  4. unbombable
  5. unbombarded
  6. unbombast
  7. unbombasted
  8. unbombastic
  9. unbombasting
  10. unbombasts
  11. unbombed

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