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uncorked

uncorked is the simple past and past participle of uncork.

Adjective

uncorked (not comparable)

  1. Having had the cork removed.
    • an uncorked bottle of wine
  2. Not corked; allowing liquid to flow freely.
    • Right before Dozier and the real General Williams's eyes (and optics), Charr's bones snapped and broke painfully as his entire body was sucked into his scar like an uncorked drain.2011, S.C. Cobb, Peripheral Conflict, →ISBN, page 323
    • Next to the sink was an uncorked bottle of wine, a can of beer, and two glasses.2012 -, Andrea Camilleri, The Potter's Field: An Inspector Montalbano Novel, →ISBN
  3. Allowing exhaust gasses to be released to the atmosphere immediately after exiting the exhaust manifold.
    • With their uncorked engine exhaust snarling, the B-25s zoomed over the twin spires of the impressive white cathedral and strafed several supply dumps alongside the waterfront.2013, Bruce Gamble, Target: Rabaul, →ISBN, page 155

Meaning of uncork

Verb

uncork (third-person singular simple present uncorks, present participle uncorking, simple past and past participle uncorked)

  1. (transitive) To open (a bottle or other container sealed with a cork or stopper) by removing the cork or stopper from.
    • uncork a bottle of wine
  2. (transitive) To release.
    • The 11 September attacks uncorked a whirlwind of outlandish conspiracy theories.2002, The Middle East, numbers 319-329, page 10

Questions about uncorked

What does uncorked mean?
Uncorked means having had the cork removed.
What is uncorked the simple past and past participle of?
Uncorked is the simple past and past participle of uncork.
What part of speech is uncorked?
Uncorked is an adjective.

Words near uncorked in the dictionary

  1. uncordoned
  2. uncords
  3. uncored
  4. uncork
  5. uncorkable
  6. uncorked
  7. uncorker
  8. uncorkers
  9. uncorking
  10. uncorkings
  11. uncorks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncorked (page history and authors); uncork (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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