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unclung

unclung is the simple past and past participle of uncling.

Meaning of uncling

Verb

uncling (third-person singular simple present unclings, present participle unclinging, simple past and past participle unclung)

  1. (obsolete) To cease from clinging or adhering.
    • unleſſe it be the lowest lees of a canonicall infection livergrown to their fides; which perhaps will never uncling1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC

Questions about unclung

What is unclung the simple past and past participle of?
Unclung is the simple past and past participle of uncling.

Words near unclung in the dictionary

  1. uncluing
  2. unclump
  3. unclumped
  4. unclumping
  5. unclumps
  6. unclung
  7. uncluster
  8. unclusterable
  9. unclustered
  10. unclustering
  11. unclusters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unclung (page history and authors); uncling (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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