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unshawl

unshawl verb: to remove one's shawl.

Verb

unshawl (third-person singular simple present unshawls, present participle unshawling, simple past and past participle unshawled)

  1. (intransitive) To remove one's shawl.
    • And now Caroline had to usher them upstairs, to help them to unshawl, smooth their hair, and make themselves smart; […]1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, page 175
  2. (transitive) To remove a shawl from.
    • She attended all our guests, most rigorously insisted on uncloaking and unshawling them, whether they would or not; […]1875, The Argosy, volume 19, page 453

Forms of unshawl

third-person singular presentunshawls
present participleunshawling
past participleunshawled
pastunshawled

Origin of unshawl

From un- + shawl.

Questions about unshawl

What does unshawl mean?
Unshawl means to remove one's shawl.
What part of speech is unshawl?
Unshawl is a verb.
What is the past tense of unshawl?
The past tense of unshawl is unshawled.

Words near unshawl in the dictionary

  1. unshaved
  2. unshavedness
  3. unshaven
  4. unshavenly
  5. unshavenness
  6. unshawl
  7. unshawled
  8. unshawling
  9. unshawls
  10. unshazamable
  11. unshazammable

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