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unseaming

unseaming is the present participle and gerund of unseam.

Meaning of unseam

Verb

unseam (third-person singular simple present unseams, present participle unseaming, simple past and past participle unseamed)

  1. (transitive) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open.
    • Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about unseaming

What is unseaming the present participle and gerund of?
Unseaming is the present participle and gerund of unseam.

Words near unseaming in the dictionary

  1. unseam
  2. unseamanlike
  3. unseamanly
  4. unseamanship
  5. unseamed
  6. unseaming
  7. unseams
  8. unsearchable
  9. unsearchableness
  10. unsearchables
  11. unsearchably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unseaming (page history and authors); unseam (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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