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unjamming

unjamming is the present participle and gerund of unjam.

Meaning of unjam

Verb

unjam (third-person singular simple present unjams, present participle unjamming, simple past and past participle unjammed)

  1. (transitive) To remove a blockage from; to release from being jammed.
    • The printer is still on, which is good because you may need to access features, unjam the printer, or do things that you otherwise cannot do while the thing is printing.2011, Dan Gookin, PCs For Dummies, page 152

Questions about unjamming

What is unjamming the present participle and gerund of?
Unjamming is the present participle and gerund of unjam.

Words near unjamming in the dictionary

  1. unjailing
  2. unjails
  3. unjam
  4. unjammable
  5. unjammed
  6. unjamming
  7. unjams
  8. unjangled
  9. unjapanned
  10. unjar
  11. unjargonized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unjamming (page history and authors); unjam (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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