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unhood

unhood verb: to remove the hood from.

Verb

unhood (third-person singular simple present unhoods, present participle unhooding, simple past and past participle unhooded)

  1. (transitive) To remove the hood from.
    • there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.2002, Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey, page 109
    Antonyms:
    hood

Antonyms of unhood

Forms of unhood

third-person singular presentunhoods
present participleunhooding
past participleunhooded
pastunhooded

Origin of unhood

From un- + hood.

Questions about unhood

What does unhood mean?
Unhood means to remove the hood from.
What part of speech is unhood?
Unhood is a verb.
What is the past tense of unhood?
The past tense of unhood is unhooded.

Words near unhood in the dictionary

  1. unhonour
  2. unhonour'd
  3. unhonourable
  4. unhonourably
  5. unhonoured
  6. unhood
  7. unhooded
  8. unhooding
  9. unhoods
  10. unhoodwink
  11. unhoodwinked

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