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unroving

unroving is the present participle and gerund 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

unroving (not comparable)

  1. That does not rove or roam.
    • […] mutual reflexivity between the viewer and the sculpture, and the exploitation of the unroving eye of the viewer […]2014, Peter Schultz, Ralf Von den Hoff, Structure, Image, Ornament

Questions about unroving

What does unroving mean?
Unroving means that does not rove or roam.
What is unroving the present participle and gerund of?
Unroving is the present participle and gerund of unrove.
What part of speech is unroving?
Unroving is an adjective.

Words near unroving in the dictionary

  1. unroutinized
  2. unrove
  3. unroved
  4. unroven
  5. unroves
  6. unroving
  7. unrowed
  8. unroweled
  9. unrowelled
  10. unroyal
  11. unroyalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unroving (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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