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unlacing

unlacing is the present participle and gerund of unlace.

Meaning of unlace

Verb

unlace (third-person singular simple present unlaces, present participle unlacing, simple past and past participle unlaced)

  1. (transitive) To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces.
    • Unlace your shoes before taking them off.
  2. (transitive) To loosen the clothing of (a person).
  3. (transitive) To remove (film) from a projector.

Questions about unlacing

What is unlacing the present participle and gerund of?
Unlacing is the present participle and gerund of unlace.

Words near unlacing in the dictionary

  1. unlace
  2. unlaced
  3. unlacerated
  4. unlaces
  5. unlachrymose
  6. unlacing
  7. unlackeyed
  8. unlaconic
  9. unlacquered
  10. unladdered
  11. unlade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlacing (page history and authors); unlace (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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