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unlaying

unlaying is the present participle and gerund of unlay.

Meaning of unlay

Verb

unlay (third-person singular simple present unlays, present participle unlaying, simple past and past participle unlaid)

  1. (transitive) To untwist.
    • to unlay a rope

Questions about unlaying

What is unlaying the present participle and gerund of?
Unlaying is the present participle and gerund of unlay.

Words near unlaying in the dictionary

  1. unlaxes
  2. unlaxing
  3. unlay
  4. unlayable
  5. unlayered
  6. unlaying
  7. unlays
  8. unlazy
  9. unleachable
  10. unleached
  11. unlead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlaying (page history and authors); unlay (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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