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unsplays

unsplays is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 unsplays

What is unsplays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unsplays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsplay.

Words near unsplays in the dictionary

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

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