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unhorses

unhorses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unhorse.

Meaning of unhorse

Verb

unhorse (third-person singular simple present unhorses, present participle unhorsing, simple past and past participle unhorsed)

  1. To forcibly remove from a horse.
    • The knight was unhorsed when his opponent's lance struck his shield.
  2. (broadly) To disrupt or unseat; to remove from a position.
    • The incumbent governor was unhorsed by the scandal that broke during his reelection campaign.

Questions about unhorses

What is unhorses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unhorses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unhorse.

Words near unhorses in the dictionary

  1. unhorrified
  2. unhorrifying
  3. unhorse
  4. unhorsed
  5. unhorselike
  6. unhorses
  7. unhorsey
  8. unhorsing
  9. unhorsings
  10. unhorsy
  11. unhorticultural

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhorses (page history and authors); unhorse (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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