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unimprisoning

unimprisoning is the present participle and gerund of unimprison.

Meaning of unimprison

Verb

unimprison (third-person singular simple present unimprisons, present participle unimprisoning, simple past and past participle unimprisoned)

  1. (transitive) To release from prison; to free.
    • They became activists and advocates, largely unaware of the possibility that, in advocating more of the same services for heretofore underserved populations, they might be exposing unwittingly the cultural parochialism from which they sought to unimprison themselves.1985, Seymour Bernard Sarason, Caring and Compassion in Clinical Practice

Questions about unimprisoning

What is unimprisoning the present participle and gerund of?
Unimprisoning is the present participle and gerund of unimprison.

Words near unimprisoning in the dictionary

  1. unimprinting
  2. unimprints
  3. unimprison
  4. unimprisonable
  5. unimprisoned
  6. unimprisoning
  7. unimprisons
  8. unimpropriate
  9. unimpropriated
  10. unimprovability
  11. unimprovable

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