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unscrambling

unscrambling is the present participle and gerund of unscramble.

Meaning of unscramble

Verb

unscramble (third-person singular simple present unscrambles, present participle unscrambling, simple past and past participle unscrambled)

  1. (transitive) To reverse the process of scrambling, decrypt.
  2. (transitive) To restore to order; to rectify.
    • 'They're just making it look as if all their big shots were gaga. God knows how they're going to unscramble the whole business.'1953, Ian Fleming, “The White Tent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 138

Questions about unscrambling

What is unscrambling the present participle and gerund of?
Unscrambling is the present participle and gerund of unscramble.

Words near unscrambling in the dictionary

  1. unscramble
  2. unscrambled
  3. unscrambler
  4. unscramblers
  5. unscrambles
  6. unscrambling
  7. unscrapable
  8. unscrapeable
  9. unscraped
  10. unscrapped
  11. unscratchability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unscrambling (page history and authors); unscramble (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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