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unspending

unspending is the present participle and gerund of unspend.

Meaning of unspend

Verb

unspend (third-person singular simple present unspends, present participle unspending, simple past and past participle unspent)

  1. (rare, transitive) To recover (money that has been spent); to undo the spending of.
    • Now that I have to get a mortgage, I wish I could unspend all that money I wasted on my car.

Questions about unspending

What is unspending the present participle and gerund of?
Unspending is the present participle and gerund of unspend.

Words near unspending in the dictionary

  1. unspelling
  2. unspells
  3. unspelt
  4. unspend
  5. unspendable
  6. unspending
  7. unspends
  8. unspent
  9. unspewed
  10. unsphere
  11. unsphered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unspending (page history and authors); unspend (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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