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unmechanize

unmechanize verb: to undo the mechanism of something.

Verb

unmechanize (third-person singular simple present unmechanizes, present participle unmechanizing, simple past and past participle unmechanized)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To undo the mechanism of something.
    • What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments, which has not fallen upon thy head, or ever thou camest into the world!1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 227

Forms of unmechanize

third-person singular presentunmechanizes
present participleunmechanizing
past participleunmechanized
pastunmechanized

Origin of unmechanize

From un- + mechanize.

Questions about unmechanize

What does unmechanize mean?
Unmechanize means to undo the mechanism of something.
What part of speech is unmechanize?
Unmechanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of unmechanize?
The past tense of unmechanize is unmechanized.

Words near unmechanize in the dictionary

  1. unmechanically
  2. unmechanise
  3. unmechanised
  4. unmechanistic
  5. unmechanizable
  6. unmechanize
  7. unmechanized
  8. unmedaled
  9. unmedalled
  10. unmedallioned
  11. unmeddle

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