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uncoalesces

uncoalesces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of uncoalesce.

Meaning of uncoalesce

Verb

uncoalesce (third-person singular simple present uncoalesces, present participle uncoalescing, simple past and past participle uncoalesced)

  1. (transitive) To separate from a coalesced state.
    • It is clear that what sound change has coalesced, sound change cannot uncoalesce; and the probability is vanishingly small that analogy and borrowing should proceed in such a way as to restore just the situation that had pertained before the restructuring.1973, Charles Francis Hockett, Man's Place in Nature, page 292

Questions about uncoalesces

What is uncoalesces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Uncoalesces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of uncoalesce.

Words near uncoalesces in the dictionary

  1. uncoagulable
  2. uncoagulated
  3. uncoagulating
  4. uncoalesce
  5. uncoalesced
  6. uncoalesces
  7. uncoalescing
  8. uncoarse
  9. uncoarsened
  10. uncoat
  11. uncoatable

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