Word.ws English Dictionary

unprotecting

unprotecting is the present participle and gerund of unprotect.

Meaning of unprotect

Verb

unprotect (third-person singular simple present unprotects, present participle unprotecting, simple past and past participle unprotected)

  1. (transitive) To remove protection from.
    • Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.

Questions about unprotecting

What is unprotecting the present participle and gerund of?
Unprotecting is the present participle and gerund of unprotect.

Words near unprotecting in the dictionary

  1. unprotected
  2. unprotected sex
  3. unprotectedly
  4. unprotectedness
  5. unprotectible
  6. unprotecting
  7. unprotection
  8. unprotective
  9. unprotectively
  10. unprotector
  11. unprotectors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unprotecting (page history and authors); unprotect (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unprotecting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unprotecting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.