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unbrushing

unbrushing is the present participle and gerund of unbrush.

Meaning of unbrush

Verb

unbrush (third-person singular simple present unbrushes, present participle unbrushing, simple past and past participle unbrushed)

  1. To undo the result of brushing.
    • Your hair is brushed very nicely, but just unbrush it a minute so that they can see the scar.20th century, Supreme Court Appellate Division- First Department Papers On Appeal From Order, pages 72–73

Questions about unbrushing

What is unbrushing the present participle and gerund of?
Unbrushing is the present participle and gerund of unbrush.

Words near unbrushing in the dictionary

  1. unbrused
  2. unbrush
  3. unbrushable
  4. unbrushed
  5. unbrushes
  6. unbrushing
  7. unbrutalised
  8. unbrutalize
  9. unbrutalized
  10. unbrutalizes
  11. unbrutalizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbrushing (page history and authors); unbrush (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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