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uncase

uncase verb: to skin or flay.

Verb

uncase (third-person singular simple present uncases, present participle uncasing, simple past and past participle uncased)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To skin or flay.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To strip (someone); to undress.
    • Sancho Panza seeing the fryar on the ground, leaped from his ass with great agility, and beginning to uncase him [translating quitar los habitos] with the utmost dexterity, two of their servants came up, and asked for what reason he stripped their master?1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8
  3. (transitive) To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
  4. (transitive) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

Forms of uncase

third-person singular presentuncases
present participleuncasing
past participleuncased
pastuncased

Origin of uncase

From un- + case.

Questions about uncase

What does uncase mean?
Uncase means to skin or flay.
What part of speech is uncase?
Uncase is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncase?
The past tense of uncase is uncased.

Words near uncase in the dictionary

  1. uncarting
  2. uncarts
  3. uncarvable
  4. uncarved
  5. uncascaded
  6. uncase
  7. uncased
  8. uncasemated
  9. uncases
  10. uncashable
  11. uncashed

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