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unqueen

unqueen verb: to divest of the rank or authority of queen.

Verb

unqueen (third-person singular simple present unqueens, present participle unqueening, simple past and past participle unqueened)

  1. (transitive) To divest of the rank or authority of queen.
    • When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
  2. to remove the queen bee

Forms of unqueen

third-person singular presentunqueens
present participleunqueening
past participleunqueened
pastunqueened

Origin of unqueen

From un- + queen.

Questions about unqueen

What does unqueen mean?
Unqueen means to divest of the rank or authority of queen.
What part of speech is unqueen?
Unqueen is a verb.
What is the past tense of unqueen?
The past tense of unqueen is unqueened.

Words near unqueen in the dictionary

  1. unquashable
  2. unquashed
  3. unquavering
  4. unquaveringly
  5. unquayed
  6. unqueen
  7. unqueened
  8. unqueening
  9. unqueenlike
  10. unqueenly
  11. unqueens

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