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unshawling

unshawling is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about unshawling

What is unshawling the present participle and gerund of?
Unshawling is the present participle and gerund of unshawl.

Words near unshawling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshawling (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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