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unperforms

unperforms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unperform.

Meaning of unperform

Verb

unperform (third-person singular simple present unperforms, present participle unperforming, simple past and past participle unperformed)

  1. (transitive) To cease to perform; to undo or dismantle (a social or cultural practice) by refusing to take part.
    • Set against the ongoing legacy of minstrelsy, Banks argues against race as a meaningful category and brings to our attention strategies to unperform and dismantle it.2006, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman, A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics (page 7)

Questions about unperforms

What is unperforms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unperforms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unperform.

Words near unperforms in the dictionary

  1. unperformably
  2. unperformance
  3. unperformances
  4. unperformed
  5. unperforming
  6. unperforms
  7. unperfumed
  8. unperfused
  9. unperiled
  10. unperilled
  11. unperilous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unperforms (page history and authors); unperform (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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