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unsprang

unsprang is the simple past of unspring.

Meaning of unspring

Verb

unspring (third-person singular simple present unsprings, present participle unspringing, simple past unsprang or unsprung, past participle unsprung)

  1. (ambitransitive) To release or be released by means of a spring.
    • There was a click and the unspringing of a latch.2010, Elizabeth Mirabel Sain, Gift with Purchase
  2. (transitive) To undo the springing of (a mechanism).
    • to unspring a trap

Questions about unsprang

What is unsprang the simple past of?
Unsprang is the simple past of unspring.

Words near unsprang in the dictionary

  1. unspottedness
  2. unspotting
  3. unspoused
  4. unspouted
  5. unsprained
  6. unsprang
  7. unsprayable
  8. unsprayed
  9. unspread
  10. unspreadable
  11. unspreading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsprang (page history and authors); unspring (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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