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unstarring

unstarring is the present participle and gerund of unstar.

Meaning of unstar

Verb

unstar (third-person singular simple present unstars, present participle unstarring, simple past and past participle unstarred)

  1. (transitive) To remove a star from.
    • If you want to unstar the review request, just click on the star icon again.2014, Sandeep Rawat, Getting Started with Review Board
  2. (UK, transitive) To demote a question from an oral one to a written one (because oral questions are conventionally marked with a star on the Order of Business in the House of Commons).

Questions about unstarring

What is unstarring the present participle and gerund of?
Unstarring is the present participle and gerund of unstar.

Words near unstarring in the dictionary

  1. unstarches
  2. unstarching
  3. unstarchy
  4. unstarlike
  5. unstarred
  6. unstarring
  7. unstarry
  8. unstars
  9. unstart
  10. unstartable
  11. unstarted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unstarring (page history and authors); unstar (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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