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unspreading

unspreading is the present participle and gerund of unspread.

Meaning of unspread

Verb

unspread (third-person singular simple present unspreads, present participle unspreading, simple past and past participle unspread)

  1. (transitive) To undo the spread of.
    • A rumour is as hard to unspread as butter.

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Questions about unspreading

What is unspreading the present participle and gerund of?
Unspreading is the present participle and gerund of unspread.

Words near unspreading in the dictionary

  1. unsprang
  2. unsprayable
  3. unsprayed
  4. unspread
  5. unspreadable
  6. unspreading
  7. unspreads
  8. unsprightliness
  9. unsprightly
  10. unspring
  11. unspringed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unspreading (page history and authors); unspread (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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