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unsocket

unsocket verb: to loosen or remove from a socket.

Verb

unsocket (third-person singular simple present unsockets, present participle unsocketing, simple past and past participle unsocketed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To loosen or remove from a socket.
    • It racks his Joints, unsockets all his Bones.a. 1711, Thomas Ken, On the Passion

Forms of unsocket

third-person singular presentunsockets
present participleunsocketing
past participleunsocketed
pastunsocketed

Origin of unsocket

From un- + socket.

Questions about unsocket

What does unsocket mean?
Unsocket means to loosen or remove from a socket.
What part of speech is unsocket?
Unsocket is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsocket?
The past tense of unsocket is unsocketed.

Words near unsocket in the dictionary

  1. unsocialness
  2. unsociological
  3. unsociologist
  4. unsociologists
  5. unsocked
  6. unsocket
  7. unsocketed
  8. unsocketing
  9. unsockets
  10. unsodded
  11. unsodden

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