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unrig

unrig verb: to remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.).

Verb

unrig (third-person singular simple present unrigs, present participle unrigging, simple past and past participle unrigged)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.).
    • No, I have brought nothing but Ballaſt back,—made a delicious Voyage, Setter; and might have rode at Anchor in the Port till this time, but the Enemy ſurpriz'd us.— I vvou'd unrig.1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 43
    • Some climbed the masts to unrig her, others rushed into the hold to get out the cargo, and numbers hurried to the cabin to carry off the lighter articles which it contained.1859, W[illiam] H[enry] G[iles] Kingston, chapter 22, in Old Jack
  2. (transitive) To disable.
  3. (obsolete, slang) To undress (someone).

unrig meaning in Tamil

unrig in Tamil

கழற்று

Examples of unrig in a sentence

  • A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act of sending it down on deck.1867, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word-Book:
  • [I]n bathing costumes they unrigged the boat, put away the sails, and got her up to her resting place upon the dry sand of the beach.1957, Neville Shute, chapter 3, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow & Co:

Forms of unrig

third-person singular presentunrigs
present participleunrigging
past participleunrigged
pastunrigged

Origin of unrig

From un- + rig.

Questions about unrig

What does unrig mean?
Unrig means to remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.).
What is unrig in Tamil?
Unrig in Tamil is கழற்று. See Unrig meaning in Tamil.
How do you use unrig in a sentence?
A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act of sending it down on deck.
What part of speech is unrig?
Unrig is a verb.
What is the past tense of unrig?
The past tense of unrig is unrigged.

Words near unrig in the dictionary

  1. unridiculous
  2. unrife
  3. unriffled
  4. unrifled
  5. unrifted
  6. unrig
  7. unrigged
  8. unrigging
  9. unright
  10. unrightable
  11. unrighted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrig (page history and authors); unrig (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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