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unsocketing

unsocketing is the present participle and gerund of unsocket.

Meaning of unsocket

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

Questions about unsocketing

What is unsocketing the present participle and gerund of?
Unsocketing is the present participle and gerund of unsocket.

Words near unsocketing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsocketing (page history and authors); unsocket (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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