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unclutching

unclutching is the present participle and gerund of unclutch.

Meaning of unclutch

Verb

unclutch (third-person singular simple present unclutches, present participle unclutching, simple past and past participle unclutched)

  1. (transitive) To open (something tightly closed).
    • Unclutch his griping hand.1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC
  2. (ambitransitive) To disengage (a clutch, etc.).
    Synonyms:
    declutch
  3. (meditation) To let go of distractions and thoughts.
    • When a thought arises in you, just remember 'Let me unclutch'.2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Why Meditation, page 229

Questions about unclutching

What is unclutching the present participle and gerund of?
Unclutching is the present participle and gerund of unclutch.

Words near unclutching in the dictionary

  1. unclusters
  2. unclutch
  3. unclutchable
  4. unclutched
  5. unclutches
  6. unclutching
  7. unclutter
  8. uncluttered
  9. unclutteredness
  10. uncluttering
  11. unclutters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unclutching (page history and authors); unclutch (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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