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unbombasted

unbombasted is the simple past and past participle of unbombast.

Meaning of unbombast

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

Questions about unbombasted

What is unbombasted the simple past and past participle of?
Unbombasted is the simple past and past participle of unbombast.

Words near unbombasted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbombasted (page history and authors); unbombast (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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