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uncases

uncases is the third-person singular simple present indicative of uncase.

Meaning of uncase

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.

Questions about uncases

What is uncases the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Uncases is the third-person singular simple present indicative of uncase.

Words near uncases in the dictionary

  1. uncarved
  2. uncascaded
  3. uncase
  4. uncased
  5. uncasemated
  6. uncases
  7. uncashable
  8. uncashed
  9. uncashiered
  10. uncasing
  11. uncask

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