unexpressing
unexpressing is the present participle and gerund of unexpress.
Meaning of unexpress
Verb
unexpress (third-person singular simple present unexpresses, present participle unexpressing, simple past and past participle unexpressed)
- Hypothetically, to undo the expressing of.
- For Barthes, the task of the novelist is to unexpress what has already been expressed, to deliberately play havoc with what is undeniably — and therefore frustratingly — true.1978, Alexander Welsh, editor, Narrative Endings, page 95
Questions about unexpressing
- What is unexpressing the present participle and gerund of?
- Unexpressing is the present participle and gerund of unexpress.
Words near unexpressing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unexpressing (page history and authors); unexpress (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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