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unclapping

unclapping is the present participle and gerund of unclap.

Meaning of unclap

Verb

unclap (third-person singular simple present unclaps, present participle unclapping, simple past and past participle unclapped)

  1. (transitive) To remove (one's hand clapped over one's mouth, or similar).
    • He unclapped the hand over his mouth to announce, “The PR chick is enormous and scary, with pink hair.”2013, Jennifer Echols, Playing Dirty, page 21

Questions about unclapping

What is unclapping the present participle and gerund of?
Unclapping is the present participle and gerund of unclap.

Words near unclapping in the dictionary

  1. unclamps
  2. unclannish
  3. unclap
  4. unclapboarded
  5. unclapped
  6. unclapping
  7. unclaps
  8. unclarifiable
  9. unclarified
  10. unclarifying
  11. unclarities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unclapping (page history and authors); unclap (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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