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unshawled

unshawled is the simple past and past participle of unshawl.

Meaning of unshawl

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

Adjective

unshawled (not comparable)

  1. Not dressed in or covered by a shawl.

Questions about unshawled

What does unshawled mean?
Unshawled means not dressed in or covered by a shawl.
What is unshawled the simple past and past participle of?
Unshawled is the simple past and past participle of unshawl.
What part of speech is unshawled?
Unshawled is an adjective.

Words near unshawled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshawled (page history and authors); unshawl (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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