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undight

undight verb: to take off (a piece of clothing).

Verb

undight (third-person singular simple present undights, present participle undighting, simple past and past participle undighted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take off (a piece of clothing).
    • His mayled haberjeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burganet did light.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of undight

third-person singular presentundights
present participleundighting
past participleundighted
pastundighted

Origin of undight

From un- + dight.

Questions about undight

What does undight mean?
Undight means to take off (a piece of clothing).
What part of speech is undight?
Undight is a verb.
What is the past tense of undight?
The past tense of undight is undighted.

Words near undight in the dictionary

  1. undigesting
  2. undigestion
  3. undiggable
  4. undigged
  5. undigging
  6. undight
  7. undighted
  8. undighting
  9. undights
  10. undigital
  11. undigitated

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