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unspiraling

unspiraling is the present participle and gerund of unspiral.

Meaning of unspiral

Verb

unspiral (third-person singular simple present unspirals, present participle (US) unspiraling or (UK) unspiralling, simple past and past participle (US) unspiraled or (UK) unspiralled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) open up from a spiral shape.
    • The DNA unspirals through vibration.1997, Pam Montgomery, Partner Earth: A Spiritual Ecology

Questions about unspiraling

What is unspiraling the present participle and gerund of?
Unspiraling is the present participle and gerund of unspiral.

Words near unspiraling in the dictionary

  1. unspins
  2. unspinsterlike
  3. unspiny
  4. unspiral
  5. unspiraled
  6. unspiraling
  7. unspiralized
  8. unspiralled
  9. unspiralling
  10. unspirals
  11. unspirantized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unspiraling (page history and authors); unspiral (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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