unshipped
unshipped is the simple past and past participle of unship.
Meaning of unship
Verb
unship (third-person singular simple present unships, present participle unshipping, simple past and past participle unshipped)
- To unload cargo from a ship or other vessel.
- To remove (an oar, a mast, etc.) from its normal position.
- Dan sluiced the pen energetically, unshipped the table, set it up to dry in the moonlight, ran the red knife-blades through a wad of oakum, and began to sharpen them on a tiny grindstone […]1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
- To throw from a horse; to unseat.
- Ben hired a nag, but 'twould stumble of course, / And by falling endanger poor Ben, / Aye, and over her bows, sir, this crazy old horse / Would unship, and unship him again.1823 February 8, L. O., “Ballast”, in The Mirror, number XV, page 240
Adjective
unshipped (not comparable)
- Not having been shipped.
- With the exception of deals, the quantity of goods left unshipped is very trifling.1862, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 220
- If the invoice didn't match the sales order, the unshipped goods remain on the sales order.2006, Kathy Ivens, Running QuickBooks 2007 Premier Editions, page 207
Origin of unshipped
From unship + -ed.
From un- + shipped.
Questions about unshipped
- What does unshipped mean?
- Unshipped means not having been shipped.
- What is unshipped the simple past and past participle of?
- Unshipped is the simple past and past participle of unship.
- What part of speech is unshipped?
- Unshipped is an adjective.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshipped (page history and authors); unship (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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