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unnestled

unnestled is the simple past and past participle of unnestle.

Meaning of unnestle

Verb

unnestle (third-person singular simple present unnestles, present participle unnestling, simple past and past participle unnestled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To eject from a comfortable situation; to unnest or drive out.
    • And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division...a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth

Questions about unnestled

What is unnestled the simple past and past participle of?
Unnestled is the simple past and past participle of unnestle.

Words near unnestled in the dictionary

  1. unnest
  2. unnestable
  3. unnested
  4. unnesting
  5. unnestle
  6. unnestled
  7. unnestles
  8. unnestling
  9. unnests
  10. unneth
  11. unnethe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unnestled (page history and authors); unnestle (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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