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unsewn

unsewn is the past participle of unsew.

Meaning of unsew

Verb

unsew (third-person singular simple present unsews, present participle unsewing, simple past unsewed, past participle unsewn)

  1. (transitive) To undo something sewn or enclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

Adjective

unsewn (not comparable)

  1. Not sewn.
    • And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy—so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail coming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

Origin of unsewn

From un- + sewn.

Questions about unsewn

What does unsewn mean?
Unsewn means not sewn.
What is unsewn the past participle of?
Unsewn is the past participle of unsew.
What part of speech is unsewn?
Unsewn is an adjective.

Words near unsewn in the dictionary

  1. unsew
  2. unsewable
  3. unsewed
  4. unsewered
  5. unsewing
  6. unsewn
  7. unsews
  8. unsex
  9. unsexed
  10. unsexes
  11. unsexier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsewn (page history and authors); unsew (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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