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unpreparing

unpreparing is the present participle and gerund of unprepare.

Meaning of unprepare

Verb

unprepare (third-person singular simple present unprepares, present participle unpreparing, simple past and past participle unprepared)

  1. (transitive) To undo the preparation of.
    • The planters generally are doing very little to prepare the apprentices for freedom, but some are doing very much to unprepare them. They are driving the people from them by their conduct.1838, James A. Thome, Joseph Horace Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies, page 222

Questions about unpreparing

What is unpreparing the present participle and gerund of?
Unpreparing is the present participle and gerund of unprepare.

Words near unpreparing in the dictionary

  1. unprepared
  2. unpreparedly
  3. unpreparedness
  4. unprepareds
  5. unprepares
  6. unpreparing
  7. unpreponderating
  8. unprepossessed
  9. unprepossessedly
  10. unprepossessing
  11. unprepossessingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpreparing (page history and authors); unprepare (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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