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unsheet

unsheet verb: to remove a sheet or sheets from; to uncover.

Verb

unsheet (third-person singular simple present unsheets, present participle unsheeting, simple past and past participle unsheeted)

  1. (transitive) To remove a sheet or sheets from; to uncover.
    • To unsheet the ghost, to identify the culprit, let's gather more clues.1989, Peter Kreeft, Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing
    • I had to unsheet the drawing-room for him to find this, the room having been covered ready for the sweep.2015, Elizabeth Bowen, The Death Of The Heart, page 167

Forms of unsheet

third-person singular presentunsheets
present participleunsheeting
past participleunsheeted
pastunsheeted

Origin of unsheet

From un- + sheet.

Questions about unsheet

What does unsheet mean?
Unsheet means to remove a sheet or sheets from; to uncover.
What part of speech is unsheet?
Unsheet is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsheet?
The past tense of unsheet is unsheeted.

Words near unsheet in the dictionary

  1. unsheaths
  2. unshed
  3. unsheddable
  4. unshedding
  5. unsheeplike
  6. unsheet
  7. unsheeted
  8. unsheeting
  9. unsheets
  10. unshell
  11. unshellable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsheet (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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