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unrhyming

unrhyming is the present participle and gerund of unrhyme.

Meaning of unrhyme

Verb

unrhyme (third-person singular simple present unrhymes, present participle unrhyming, simple past and past participle unrhymed)

  1. To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.
    • a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day1938, Ford Madox Ford, The march of literature: from Confucius' day to our own, page 333

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Questions about unrhyming

What is unrhyming the present participle and gerund of?
Unrhyming is the present participle and gerund of unrhyme.

Words near unrhyming in the dictionary

  1. unrhotacized
  2. unrhymable
  3. unrhyme
  4. unrhymed
  5. unrhymes
  6. unrhyming
  7. unrhythmic
  8. unrhythmical
  9. unrhythmically
  10. unribbed
  11. unribbon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrhyming (page history and authors); unrhyme (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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