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unlosing

unlosing is the present participle and gerund of unlose.

Meaning of unlose

Verb

unlose (third-person singular simple present unloses, present participle unlosing, simple past and past participle unlost)

  1. (rare, transitive) To recover (something lost); to find again.
    • Do words make the event realer? Do words bring back the lost moment, and hold it again, and by avowing its loss, right here, with her, the one from whom the event was lost, he, they, words, could unlose it, enter the moment as if it were still to be, and now actually is?2008, Robert Kelly, The Book from the Sky, page 199

Questions about unlosing

What is unlosing the present participle and gerund of?
Unlosing is the present participle and gerund of unlose.

Words near unlosing in the dictionary

  1. unlosable
  2. unlose
  3. unloseable
  4. unloseableness
  5. unloses
  6. unlosing
  7. unlossy
  8. unlost
  9. unlotioned
  10. unlotted
  11. unlousy

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