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unpopping

unpopping is the present participle and gerund of unpop.

Meaning of unpop

Verb

unpop (third-person singular simple present unpops, present participle unpopping, simple past and past participle unpopped)

  1. (transitive) To unfasten (a snap fastener).
    • The sorts of activities I present are buttoning, lacing, popping and unpopping press-studs, dressing and undressing dolls - although the latter is not usually perceived at all as symbolic or 'play' but a merely mechanical activity.2003, Mair Rees, Drawing on Difference
  2. (transitive) To cause not to have popped.
    • You can't unpop a balloon.

Questions about unpopping

What is unpopping the present participle and gerund of?
Unpopping is the present participle and gerund of unpop.

Words near unpopping in the dictionary

  1. unpoped
  2. unpopes
  3. unpoping
  4. unpoppable
  5. unpopped
  6. unpopping
  7. unpops
  8. unpopular
  9. unpopularise
  10. unpopularised
  11. unpopularises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpopping (page history and authors); unpop (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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