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unfellow

unfellow verb: to dissever, to cause to come apart (literal or figurative use).

Verb

unfellow (third-person singular simple present unfellows, present participle unfellowing, simple past and past participle unfellowed)

  1. (transitive) To dissever, to cause to come apart (literal or figurative use)
    • Death quite unfellows us.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Fifth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Forms of unfellow

third-person singular presentunfellows
present participleunfellowing
past participleunfellowed
pastunfellowed

Origin of unfellow

From un- + fellow.

Questions about unfellow

What does unfellow mean?
Unfellow means to dissever, to cause to come apart (literal or figurative use).
What part of speech is unfellow?
Unfellow is a verb.
What is the past tense of unfellow?
The past tense of unfellow is unfellowed.

Words near unfellow in the dictionary

  1. unfelicitousness
  2. unfelicity
  3. unfeline
  4. unfellable
  5. unfelled
  6. unfellow
  7. unfellowed
  8. unfellowing
  9. unfellowly
  10. unfellows
  11. unfellowship

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