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unroved

unroved is the simple past and past participle of unrove.

Meaning of unrove

Verb

unrove (third-person singular simple present unroves, present participle unroving, simple past and past participle unroved)

  1. (transitive) To separate textiles that have been roved or twisted together.
    • Course length measurements can be obtained by unroving the yarn from a knitted fabric but this is time consuming, destructive of material and only provides the information after knitting.2014, David J. Spencer, Knitting Technology, page 246

Adjective

unroved (not comparable)

  1. Not roved.

Questions about unroved

What does unroved mean?
Unroved means not roved.
What is unroved the simple past and past participle of?
Unroved is the simple past and past participle of unrove.
What part of speech is unroved?
Unroved is an adjective.

Words near unroved in the dictionary

  1. unroutable
  2. unrouteable
  3. unrouted
  4. unroutinized
  5. unrove
  6. unroved
  7. unroven
  8. unroves
  9. unroving
  10. unrowed
  11. unroweled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unroved (page history and authors); unrove (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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