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unsealing

unsealing is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

unsealing (plural unsealings)

  1. The opening of a seal.

Forms of unsealing

pluralunsealings

Questions about unsealing

What does unsealing mean?
Unsealing means the opening of a seal.
What is unsealing the present participle and gerund of?
Unsealing is the present participle and gerund of unseal.
What part of speech is unsealing?
Unsealing is a noun.
What is the plural of unsealing?
The plural of unsealing is unsealings.

Words near unsealing in the dictionary

  1. unsealed
  2. unsealed road
  3. unsealed roads
  4. unsealer
  5. unsealers
  6. unsealing
  7. unsealings
  8. unseals
  9. unseam
  10. unseamanlike
  11. unseamanly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsealing (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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