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unhanding

unhanding is the present participle and gerund of unhand.

Meaning of unhand

Verb

unhand (third-person singular simple present unhands, present participle unhanding, simple past and past participle unhanded)

  1. To release from the hand; to let go.
    • He holds him with his skinny hand,
      "There was a ship," quoth he.
      "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
      Eftsoons his hand dropt he.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12

Questions about unhanding

What is unhanding the present participle and gerund of?
Unhanding is the present participle and gerund of unhand.

Words near unhanding in the dictionary

  1. unhandicapped
  2. unhandier
  3. unhandiest
  4. unhandily
  5. unhandiness
  6. unhanding
  7. unhandleable
  8. unhandled
  9. unhands
  10. unhandseled
  11. unhandselled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhanding (page history and authors); unhand (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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