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unquiesce

unquiesce verb: to restore from a quiesced state.

Verb

unquiesce (third-person singular simple present unquiesces, present participle unquiescing, simple past and past participle unquiesced)

  1. (transitive) To restore from a quiesced state.

Forms of unquiesce

third-person singular presentunquiesces
present participleunquiescing
past participleunquiesced
pastunquiesced

Origin of unquiesce

From un- + quiesce.

Questions about unquiesce

What does unquiesce mean?
Unquiesce means to restore from a quiesced state.
What part of speech is unquiesce?
Unquiesce is a verb.
What is the past tense of unquiesce?
The past tense of unquiesce is unquiesced.

Words near unquiesce in the dictionary

  1. unquibblingly
  2. unquick
  3. unquickened
  4. unquickly
  5. unquicksilvered
  6. unquiesce
  7. unquiesced
  8. unquiescence
  9. unquiescent
  10. unquiesces
  11. unquiescing

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