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unhooding

unhooding is the present participle and gerund of unhood.

Meaning of unhood

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
    Antonyms:
    hood

Questions about unhooding

What is unhooding the present participle and gerund of?
Unhooding is the present participle and gerund of unhood.

Words near unhooding in the dictionary

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

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