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uncoin

uncoin verb: to deprive (metallic money) of its status as legal tender.

Verb

uncoin (third-person singular simple present uncoins, present participle uncoining, simple past and past participle uncoined)

  1. (transitive) To deprive (metallic money) of its status as legal tender.

Forms of uncoin

third-person singular presentuncoins
present participleuncoining
past participleuncoined
pastuncoined

Origin of uncoin

From un- + coin.

Questions about uncoin

What does uncoin mean?
Uncoin means to deprive (metallic money) of its status as legal tender.
What part of speech is uncoin?
Uncoin is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncoin?
The past tense of uncoin is uncoined.

Words near uncoin in the dictionary

  1. uncoiled
  2. uncoiler
  3. uncoiling
  4. uncoilings
  5. uncoils
  6. uncoin
  7. uncoinable
  8. uncoincidental
  9. uncoincidentally
  10. uncoined
  11. uncoining

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