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unreefing

unreefing is the present participle and gerund of unreef.

Meaning of unreef

Verb

unreef (third-person singular simple present unreefs, present participle unreefing, simple past and past participle unreefed)

  1. (transitive) To release (a sail that was previously reefed, or taken in).

Questions about unreefing

What is unreefing the present participle and gerund of?
Unreefing is the present participle and gerund of unreef.

Words near unreefing in the dictionary

  1. unreductive
  2. unreductively
  3. unreduplicated
  4. unreef
  5. unreefed
  6. unreefing
  7. unreefs
  8. unreel
  9. unreelable
  10. unreeled
  11. unreeler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unreefing (page history and authors); unreef (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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