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unscrewed

unscrewed is the simple past and past participle of unscrew.

Meaning of unscrew

Verb

unscrew (third-person singular simple present unscrews, present participle unscrewing, simple past and past participle unscrewed)

  1. (transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.
    • I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.

Adjective

unscrewed (not comparable)

  1. Not having been screwed.
    • Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Questions about unscrewed

What does unscrewed mean?
Unscrewed means not having been screwed.
What is unscrewed the simple past and past participle of?
Unscrewed is the simple past and past participle of unscrew.
What part of speech is unscrewed?
Unscrewed is an adjective.

Words near unscrewed in the dictionary

  1. unscreened
  2. unscreening
  3. unscreens
  4. unscrew
  5. unscrewable
  6. unscrewed
  7. unscrewer
  8. unscrewers
  9. unscrewing
  10. unscrewings
  11. unscrews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unscrewed (page history and authors); unscrew (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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