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unsplaying

unsplaying is the present participle and gerund of unsplay.

Meaning of unsplay

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

Questions about unsplaying

What is unsplaying the present participle and gerund of?
Unsplaying is the present participle and gerund of unsplay.

Words near unsplaying in the dictionary

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

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