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unsealed

unsealed is the simple past and past participle of unseal.

Meaning of unseal

Verb

unseal (third-person singular simple present unseals, present participle unsealing, simple past and past participle unsealed)

  1. (transitive) To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.
    • And a new time capsule was created by high schools students from the society’s internship program. They selected items to be unsealed in 2114, including tickets to a Lady Gaga concert.2014 October 9, “Time capsule unearthed in New York: 'This is the thrill of recovering relics'”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2020
  2. (intransitive) To open by having a seal broken.
    • But it's just the equalising of pressure as the vault door unseals.2017, Paul Crilley, Clockwork City: Delphic Division 2

Adjective

unsealed (not comparable)

  1. Not having been sealed.

Words formed from unsealed

Phrases with unsealed

Questions about unsealed

What does unsealed mean?
Unsealed means not having been sealed.
What is unsealed the simple past and past participle of?
Unsealed is the simple past and past participle of unseal.
What part of speech is unsealed?
Unsealed is an adjective.

Words near unsealed in the dictionary

  1. unscythed
  2. UNSDG
  3. unseafaring
  4. unseal
  5. unsealable
  6. unsealed
  7. unsealed road
  8. unsealed roads
  9. unsealer
  10. unsealers
  11. unsealing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsealed (page history and authors); unseal (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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