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unmailing

unmailing is the present participle and gerund of unmail.

Meaning of unmail

Verb

unmail (third-person singular simple present unmails, present participle unmailing, simple past and past participle unmailed)

  1. (transitive) To undo the act of mailing; to recover from the postal system before delivery.
    • Was it even possible to unmail a letter? She might have to lie, might have to say the letter contained explosives, or some kind of poison. Something extremely illegal.2013, Elizabeth Bass, The Way Back to Happiness

Questions about unmailing

What is unmailing the present participle and gerund of?
Unmailing is the present participle and gerund of unmail.

Words near unmailing in the dictionary

  1. unmaidenly
  2. unmaidens
  3. unmail
  4. unmailable
  5. unmailed
  6. unmailing
  7. unmails
  8. unmaimed
  9. unmaintainability
  10. unmaintainable
  11. unmaintained

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