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unkidnapping

unkidnapping is the present participle and gerund of unkidnap.

Meaning of unkidnap

Verb

unkidnap (third-person singular simple present unkidnaps, present participle unkidnapping or (rare, US only) unkidnaping, simple past and past participle unkidnapped or (rare, US only) unkidnaped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To recover (a person etc.) who has been kidnapped.
    • Reeve doesn't care about Hannah. thought Janie. This is about me. He's trying to unkidnap me. Trying to pay my ransom.2008, Caroline B. Cooney, What Janie Found, page 175

Questions about unkidnapping

What is unkidnapping the present participle and gerund of?
Unkidnapping is the present participle and gerund of unkidnap.

Words near unkidnapping in the dictionary

  1. unkicked
  2. unkid
  3. unkiddingly
  4. unkidnap
  5. unkidnapped
  6. unkidnapping
  7. unkidnaps
  8. unkie
  9. unkies
  10. unkill
  11. unkillability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unkidnapping (page history and authors); unkidnap (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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