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unpasting

unpasting is the present participle and gerund of unpaste.

Meaning of unpaste

Verb

unpaste (third-person singular simple present unpastes, present participle unpasting, simple past and past participle unpasted)

  1. (transitive) To remove or take down (something pasted); to unstick.
    • […] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
      Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.1848, Parliamentary Papers, volume 27, page 283

Questions about unpasting

What is unpasting the present participle and gerund of?
Unpasting is the present participle and gerund of unpaste.

Words near unpasting in the dictionary

  1. unpasted
  2. unpastes
  3. unpasteurised
  4. unpasteurizable
  5. unpasteurized
  6. unpasting
  7. unpastoral
  8. unpastorally
  9. unpastored
  10. unpasturable
  11. unpastured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpasting (page history and authors); unpaste (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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