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unsigning

unsigning is the present participle and gerund of unsign.

Meaning of unsign

Verb

unsign (third-person singular simple present unsigns, present participle unsigning, simple past and past participle unsigned)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To remove one's signature from (something one has signed).
    • Listen : I say we signed, and there's no unsigning.
      And the voyage is never completed, though some may ask
      What creature is this, with the sea through his eyes looking[?]
      […]
      We signed and there's no unsigning.
      Hell, no, but she rolls
      And she rolls us like foam from her flanks, the gay mulatto.1942, Robert Herring, editor, Life and Letters To-Day, volume 34, page 203
  2. (or those acting on behalf of a state) To declare void one's signing of (a treaty).
    • Third, transnational legal process could be used to erode the force of the novel US tactic of unsigning the Rome Treaty.2005, Michael Ignatieff, American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, page 137

Questions about unsigning

What is unsigning the present participle and gerund of?
Unsigning is the present participle and gerund of unsign.

Words near unsigning in the dictionary

  1. unsignificance
  2. unsignificant
  3. unsignificative
  4. unsignified
  5. unsignifying
  6. unsigning
  7. unsignposted
  8. unsigns
  9. unsiker
  10. unsilence
  11. unsilenceable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsigning (page history and authors); unsign (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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