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unmangling

unmangling is the present participle and gerund of unmangle.

Meaning of unmangle

Verb

unmangle (third-person singular simple present unmangles, present participle unmangling, simple past and past participle unmangled)

  1. (transitive) To restore the original form of (something previously mangled).
    • Eliot picked up the papers and attempted to unmangle them as much as possible. His eyes glanced over the pages […]2013, Elaine Overton, Sugar Rush

Questions about unmangling

What is unmangling the present participle and gerund of?
Unmangling is the present participle and gerund of unmangle.

Words near unmangling in the dictionary

  1. unmanfully
  2. unmanfulness
  3. unmangle
  4. unmangled
  5. unmangles
  6. unmangling
  7. unmaniacal
  8. unmanicured
  9. unmanifest
  10. unmanifestable
  11. unmanifested

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmangling (page history and authors); unmangle (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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