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unhaired

unhaired is the simple past and past participle of unhair.

Meaning of unhair

Verb

unhair (third-person singular simple present unhairs, present participle unhairing, simple past and past participle unhaired)

  1. (transitive) To remove hair from (something), especially from hide.
    • Hence horrible Villaine, or Ile ſpurne thine eyes / Like balls before me: Ile vnhaire thy head, […]c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (intransitive) To become free from hair.
    • If the skin is soaked in an amine solution before being placed in the lime it unhairs at a faster rate, however, than if soaked in plain water, as shown in Table VII.1927, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, page 361

Questions about unhaired

What is unhaired the simple past and past participle of?
Unhaired is the simple past and past participle of unhair.

Words near unhaired in the dictionary

  1. unhafted
  2. unhaggling
  3. unhailable
  4. unhailed
  5. unhair
  6. unhaired
  7. unhairer
  8. unhairers
  9. unhairiness
  10. unhairing
  11. unhairs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhaired (page history and authors); unhair (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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