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unknitting

unknitting is the present participle and gerund of unknit.

Meaning of unknit

Verb

unknit (third-person singular simple present unknits, present participle unknitting, simple past and past participle unknit or unknitted)

  1. To unravel.
    • Exhaustion will unknit even the ordered mind.
  2. To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.
    Synonyms:
    tink

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Questions about unknitting

What is unknitting the present participle and gerund of?
Unknitting is the present participle and gerund of unknit.

Words near unknitting in the dictionary

  1. unknights
  2. unknit
  3. unknits
  4. unknittable
  5. unknitted
  6. unknitting
  7. unknocked
  8. unknocking
  9. unknome
  10. unknomes
  11. unknot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unknitting (page history and authors); unknit (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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