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unchilded

unchilded is the simple past and past participle of unchild.

Meaning of unchild

Verb

unchild (third-person singular simple present unchilds, present participle unchilding, simple past and past participle unchilded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make (someone) childless.
    • Though in this city he / Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one, / Which to this hour bewail the injury, / Yet he shall have a noble memory.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about unchilded

What is unchilded the simple past and past participle of?
Unchilded is the simple past and past participle of unchild.

Words near unchilded in the dictionary

  1. unchided
  2. unchiding
  3. unchidingly
  4. unchiefly
  5. unchild
  6. unchilded
  7. unchilding
  8. unchildish
  9. unchildishly
  10. unchildishness
  11. unchildlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unchilded (page history and authors); unchild (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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