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ungear

ungear verb: to strip of gear; to unharness.

Verb

ungear (third-person singular simple present ungears, present participle ungearing, simple past and past participle ungeared)

  1. (transitive) To strip of gear; to unharness.
    • ungear horses
  2. (ambitransitive) To become, or throw out of gear.
    • ungear wheels

Forms of ungear

third-person singular presentungears
present participleungearing
past participleungeared
pastungeared

Origin of ungear

From un- + gear.

Questions about ungear

What does ungear mean?
Ungear means to strip of gear; to unharness.
What part of speech is ungear?
Ungear is a verb.
What is the past tense of ungear?
The past tense of ungear is ungeared.

Words near ungear in the dictionary

  1. ungaying
  2. ungays
  3. ungazed
  4. ungazetted
  5. ungazing
  6. ungear
  7. ungeared
  8. ungearing
  9. ungears
  10. ungeeky
  11. ungelatinised

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