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unmoors

unmoors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unmoor.

Meaning of unmoor

Verb

unmoor (third-person singular simple present unmoors, present participle unmooring, simple past and past participle unmoored)

  1. (transitive) To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).
    • “It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To set free or loose.
    • When oblivion finally unmoors us.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93
  3. (intransitive) To weigh anchor.

Questions about unmoors

What is unmoors the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unmoors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unmoor.

Words near unmoors in the dictionary

  1. unmonumented
  2. unmoor
  3. unmoored
  4. unmooredness
  5. unmooring
  6. unmoors
  7. unmooted
  8. unmopped
  9. unmoral
  10. unmoralised
  11. unmoralising

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