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unburning

unburning is the present participle and gerund of unburn.

Meaning of unburn

Verb

unburn (third-person singular simple present unburns, present participle unburning, simple past and past participle unburned)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo the process of burning in reverse.
    • Similarly, you cannot 'unstir' the sugar from a cup of coffee once it has been dissolved, and you never see a pile of ash in the fireplace 'unburn' to become a log of wood again.2002, Jim Al-Khalili, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, page 122

Questions about unburning

What is unburning the present participle and gerund of?
Unburning is the present participle and gerund of unburn.

Words near unburning in the dictionary

  1. unburlesqued
  2. unburly
  3. unburn
  4. unburnable
  5. unburned
  6. unburning
  7. unburnished
  8. unburns
  9. unburnt
  10. unburped
  11. unburred

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unburning (page history and authors); unburn (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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