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unpaunch

unpaunch verb: to eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).

Verb

unpaunch (third-person singular simple present unpaunches, present participle unpaunching, simple past and past participle unpaunched)

  1. To eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
    • The armie which the Emperor Bajareth had sent into Russia, was overwhelmed by so horrible a tempest of snow, that to find some shelter, and to save themselves from the extremitie of the cold, many advised to kill and unpanch [translating eventrer] their horses, and enter into their panches, to...1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of unpaunch

third-person singular presentunpaunches
present participleunpaunching
past participleunpaunched
pastunpaunched

Origin of unpaunch

From un- + paunch.

Questions about unpaunch

What does unpaunch mean?
Unpaunch means to eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
What part of speech is unpaunch?
Unpaunch is a verb.
What is the past tense of unpaunch?
The past tense of unpaunch is unpaunched.

Words near unpaunch in the dictionary

  1. unpatronizing
  2. unpatronizingly
  3. unpatted
  4. unpatternable
  5. unpatterned
  6. unpaunch
  7. unpaunched
  8. unpaunches
  9. unpaunching
  10. unpauperized
  11. unpausable

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