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unqueening

unqueening is the present participle and gerund of unqueen.

Meaning of unqueen

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

Questions about unqueening

What is unqueening the present participle and gerund of?
Unqueening is the present participle and gerund of unqueen.

Words near unqueening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unqueening (page history and authors); unqueen (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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