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unkeying

unkeying is the present participle and gerund of unkey.

Meaning of unkey

Verb

unkey (third-person singular simple present unkeys, present participle unkeying, simple past and past participle unkeyed)

  1. (transitive) To stop transmitting on a two-way radio, etc.
    • I forgot to unkey the microphone, and everyone could still hear me.

Questions about unkeying

What is unkeying the present participle and gerund of?
Unkeying is the present participle and gerund of unkey.

Words near unkeying in the dictionary

  1. unkerned
  2. unket
  3. unketh
  4. unkey
  5. unkeyed
  6. unkeying
  7. unkeys
  8. unkeyworded
  9. unkickable
  10. unkicked
  11. unkid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unkeying (page history and authors); unkey (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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