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unscrewing

unscrewing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Noun

unscrewing (plural unscrewings)

  1. The act by which something is unscrewed.
    • But this was a sadly lingering process, since there must be as many screwings and unscrewings as there are copies to be printed.1854, George Dodd, The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences, page 35

Forms of unscrewing

pluralunscrewings

Questions about unscrewing

What does unscrewing mean?
Unscrewing means the act by which something is unscrewed.
What is unscrewing the present participle and gerund of?
Unscrewing is the present participle and gerund of unscrew.
What part of speech is unscrewing?
Unscrewing is a noun.
What is the plural of unscrewing?
The plural of unscrewing is unscrewings.

Words near unscrewing in the dictionary

  1. unscrew
  2. unscrewable
  3. unscrewed
  4. unscrewer
  5. unscrewers
  6. unscrewing
  7. unscrewings
  8. unscrews
  9. unscribal
  10. unscribbled
  11. unscribed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unscrewing (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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