Word.ws English Dictionary

unshoulder

unshoulder verb: to remove (a burden) from one's shoulder.

Verb

unshoulder (third-person singular simple present unshoulders, present participle unshouldering, simple past and past participle unshouldered)

  1. (transitive) To remove (a burden) from one's shoulder.
    • The soldier unshouldered his gun.
    • The schoolboy unshouldered his backpack.

Forms of unshoulder

third-person singular presentunshoulders
present participleunshouldering
past participleunshouldered
pastunshouldered

Origin of unshoulder

From un- + shoulder.

Questions about unshoulder

What does unshoulder mean?
Unshoulder means to remove (a burden) from one's shoulder.
What part of speech is unshoulder?
Unshoulder is a verb.
What is the past tense of unshoulder?
The past tense of unshoulder is unshouldered.

Words near unshoulder in the dictionary

  1. unshorts
  2. unshot
  3. unshots
  4. unshotted
  5. unshotting
  6. unshoulder
  7. unshouldered
  8. unshouldering
  9. unshoulders
  10. unshouted
  11. unshouting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unshoulder (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unshoulder.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unshoulder. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.