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unfleecing

unfleecing is the present participle and gerund of unfleece.

Meaning of unfleece

Verb

unfleece (third-person singular simple present unfleeces, present participle unfleecing, simple past and past participle unfleeced)

  1. (transitive) To remove the fleece from.
    • Whereas goats thrive best in a bushy ground, that would unfleece the sheep, and yield no grass for larger cattle, and the winter cold they can bear with little charge of relief or attendance.1772, Robert Boyle, Thomas Birch, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, page 367

Questions about unfleecing

What is unfleecing the present participle and gerund of?
Unfleecing is the present participle and gerund of unfleece.

Words near unfleecing in the dictionary

  1. unfledgedness
  2. unfleeable
  3. unfleece
  4. unfleeced
  5. unfleeces
  6. unfleecing
  7. unfleecy
  8. unfleeing
  9. unfleeting
  10. unflesh
  11. unfleshed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfleecing (page history and authors); unfleece (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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