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unmaskt

unmaskt is the obsolete form of unmasked.

unmaskt is the simple past and past participle of unmask.

Meaning of unmasked

Adjective

unmasked (not comparable)

  1. Not wearing a mask on one's face.
    • And while the U.S. has seen concerts with scaled-down capacity, multiple artists have faced criticism after videos of largely unmasked crowds were shared on social media.2020 August 18, Kat Moon, “Taiwan Just Had Its First 10,000-Person Arena Concert Since the Pandemic Began. Here’s What It Was Like to Be There”, in TIME, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2022
    Synonyms:
    maskless
    Antonyms:
    masked
  2. No longer masked (from which a mask has been removed).
    • For example, the character might appear unmasked for a brief time, or until the user types another character[…]2003, Cynthia Bloch, Annette Wagner, MIDP style guide for the Java 2 platform, micro edition

Meaning of unmask

Verb

unmask (third-person singular simple present unmasks, present participle unmasking, simple past and past participle unmasked)

  1. (transitive) To remove a mask from someone.
  2. (transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
    • The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell...
  3. (intransitive) To remove one's mask.
    • But instead of a direct answer to so important a question, Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  4. (intransitive) To cease engaging in masking, to cease disguising one's autism.
    • […] to unmask and to assume her 'natural' role (rather than her 'fitting in' role).2019, Sarah Cobbe, Simple Autism Strategies for Home and School: Practical Tips, Resources and Poetry, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 49
  5. (dated, transitive) To expose something that was concealed or shielded from an enemy.
    • He recalled his horse. This, retiring, unmasked the heavy infantry, which Hannibal called in from either flank and sent with a vigorous élan in close column across the ford against the ill-arrayed barbarians, followed by the cavalry, which had formed again in its rear.1893, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Hannibal: a History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans […] , page 156
  6. (transitive) To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.

Questions about unmaskt

What is unmaskt the obsolete form of?
Unmaskt is the obsolete form of unmasked.

Words near unmaskt in the dictionary

  1. unmasking
  2. unmasking one's batteries
  3. unmaskings
  4. unmasks
  5. unmasks one's batteries
  6. unmaskt
  7. unmasochistic
  8. unmasqu'd
  9. unmasque
  10. unmasqueraded
  11. unmassacred

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmaskt (page history and authors); unmasked (page history and authors); unmask (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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