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unsplay

unsplay verb: to bring together compactly.

Verb

unsplay (third-person singular simple present unsplays, present participle unsplaying, simple past and past participle unsplayed)

  1. (especially, uncommon) To bring together compactly.
    • ... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely[…]2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 148
    • ... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill[…]2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN

Forms of unsplay

third-person singular presentunsplays
present participleunsplaying
past participleunsplayed
pastunsplayed

Origin of unsplay

From un- + splay.

Questions about unsplay

What does unsplay mean?
Unsplay means to bring together compactly.
What part of speech is unsplay?
Unsplay is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsplay?
The past tense of unsplay is unsplayed.

Words near unsplay in the dictionary

  1. unspits
  2. unspitted
  3. unspitting
  4. unsplashed
  5. unsplattered
  6. unsplay
  7. unsplayed
  8. unsplaying
  9. unsplays
  10. unspleened
  11. unsplendid

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