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unbuckling

unbuckling is the present participle and gerund of unbuckle.

Meaning of unbuckle

Verb

unbuckle (third-person singular simple present unbuckles, present participle unbuckling, simple past and past participle unbuckled)

  1. (transitive) to unfasten (the buckle of (a belt, shoe, etc))

Noun

unbuckling (plural unbucklings)

  1. The act of unfastening a buckle.
    • Ladislao, back on deck, watched the three other ceremonial unbucklings.1978, Francis Steegmuller, Silence at Salerno: A Comedy of Intrigue, page 148

Forms of unbuckling

pluralunbucklings

Questions about unbuckling

What does unbuckling mean?
Unbuckling means the act of unfastening a buckle.
What is unbuckling the present participle and gerund of?
Unbuckling is the present participle and gerund of unbuckle.
What part of speech is unbuckling?
Unbuckling is a noun.
What is the plural of unbuckling?
The plural of unbuckling is unbucklings.

Words near unbuckling in the dictionary

  1. unbrutish
  2. unbubbled
  3. unbuckle
  4. unbuckled
  5. unbuckles
  6. unbuckling
  7. unbucklings
  8. unbuckramed
  9. unbucolic
  10. unbudded
  11. unbudgeability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbuckling (page history and authors); unbuckle (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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