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uncoil

/ʌnˈkɔɪəl/

uncoil verb: to unwind or untwist (something).

Verb

uncoil (third-person singular simple present uncoils, present participle uncoiling, simple past and past participle uncoiled)

  1. (transitive) To unwind or untwist (something).
    • Can you help me uncoil this rope?
    • I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 174
  2. (intransitive) To unwind or untwist oneself.
    • The snake uncoiled and prepared to strike.
  3. (derogatory, euphemistic, rare, slang, transitive) To defecate.
    • Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, beside the railway tracks. But they also defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover ... the one thing we can and must learn from the West is the...2009 June 24, Gul N. Khan, “india has toilets, u.n. honors bharat ratna narendra modi”, in aus.politics (Usenet)
    • Ah the remittance power is slowly going to die a slow death, but the only impact will be that street shitter slumdogs will go up also. From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks. The rest 10% will either die of starvation or escape the paradise to live in Christian or a Muslim...2020 July 6, Araya, “Kuwait to deport 800,000 Indian Hindus.”, in soc.culture.uk (Usenet)

uncoil meaning in Urdu and Kannada

uncoil in Urdu

کنڈلی کھلنا, گچھا کھولنا, لچھا کھولنا

uncoil in Kannada

ಬಿಡು

Examples of uncoil in a sentence

  • From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks.2020 July 6, Araya, “Kuwait to deport 800,000 Indian Hindus.”, in soc.culture.uk (Usenet):
  • Ugh, my brother used to say uncoil a butt snake2023, DilettanteGonePro, Reddit:

Forms of uncoil

third-person singular presentuncoils
present participleuncoiling
past participleuncoiled
pastuncoiled

Origin of uncoil

From un- + coil.

Words that rhyme with uncoil

Questions about uncoil

What does uncoil mean?
Uncoil means to unwind or untwist (something).
What is uncoil in Urdu?
Uncoil in Urdu is کنڈلی کھلنا, گچھا کھولنا, لچھا کھولنا. See Uncoil meaning in Urdu.
How do you use uncoil in a sentence?
From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks.
What part of speech is uncoil?
Uncoil is a verb.
How do you pronounce uncoil?
Uncoil is pronounced /ʌnˈkɔɪəl/.
What is the past tense of uncoil?
The past tense of uncoil is uncoiled.

Words near uncoil in the dictionary

  1. uncoiffed
  2. uncoiffing
  3. uncoiffured
  4. uncoifing
  5. uncoifs
  6. uncoil
  7. uncoilable
  8. uncoiled
  9. uncoiler
  10. uncoiling
  11. uncoilings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncoil (page history and authors); uncoil (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uncoil (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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