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unlimb

unlimb verb: to remove a limb or limbs from.

Verb

unlimb (third-person singular simple present unlimbs, present participle unlimbing, simple past and past participle unlimbed)

  1. (transitive) To remove a limb or limbs from.
    • […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.2007, Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Forms of unlimb

third-person singular presentunlimbs
present participleunlimbing
past participleunlimbed
pastunlimbed

Origin of unlimb

From un- + limb.

Questions about unlimb

What does unlimb mean?
Unlimb means to remove a limb or limbs from.
What part of speech is unlimb?
Unlimb is a verb.
What is the past tense of unlimb?
The past tense of unlimb is unlimbed.

Words near unlimb in the dictionary

  1. unlikenesses
  2. unlikening
  3. unlikens
  4. unlikes
  5. unliking
  6. unlimb
  7. unlimbed
  8. unlimber
  9. unlimbered
  10. unlimbering
  11. unlimbers

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