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unrewound

unrewound adjective: not having been rewound.

Adjective

unrewound (not comparable)

  1. Not having been rewound.
    • The majority of film exchanges request that the film be returned to them unrewound just as it is taken off the projector after it has been run, it being the rule in exchanges that the film be examined starting at the end and working back to the beginning of the subject...1928, James Ross Cameron, Motion picture projection

Origin of unrewound

From un- + rewound.

Questions about unrewound

What does unrewound mean?
Unrewound means not having been rewound.
What part of speech is unrewound?
Unrewound is an adjective.

Words near unrewound in the dictionary

  1. unrewardedly
  2. unrewarding
  3. unrewardingly
  4. unrewardingness
  5. unreworked
  6. unrewound
  7. unrhapsodic
  8. unrhetorical
  9. unrhetorically
  10. unrhotacized
  11. unrhymable

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