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unhands

unhands is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 unhands

What is unhands the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unhands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unhand.

Words near unhands in the dictionary

  1. unhandily
  2. unhandiness
  3. unhanding
  4. unhandleable
  5. unhandled
  6. unhands
  7. unhandseled
  8. unhandselled
  9. unhandsome
  10. unhandsomely
  11. unhandsomeness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhands (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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