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unstation

unstation verb: to remove from a station or fixed position.

Verb

unstation (third-person singular simple present unstations, present participle unstationing, simple past and past participle unstationed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To remove from a station or fixed position.
    • The advance towards the 'freer play' of man's life sets out then from Dante and leads to Sordello itself: by 'unstationing' one of the Commedia's own characters and then refashioning him, Browning can show how far poetry has come in the contrast between the two Sordellos.1983, Steve Ellis, Dante and English Poetry: Shelley to T. S. Eliot, page 69
    • Do I need to unstation him if I'm just running out of the room for a few minutes? No. Short departures are good because they get your puppy used to being left alone and show him that you won't desert him.2008, James DeBitetto, Sarah Hodgson, You and Your Puppy

Forms of unstation

third-person singular presentunstations
present participleunstationing
past participleunstationed
pastunstationed

Origin of unstation

From un- + station.

Questions about unstation

What does unstation mean?
Unstation means to remove from a station or fixed position.
What part of speech is unstation?
Unstation is a verb.
What is the past tense of unstation?
The past tense of unstation is unstationed.

Words near unstation in the dictionary

  1. unstates
  2. unstatesmanlike
  3. unstatesmanly
  4. unstatic
  5. unstating
  6. unstation
  7. unstationary
  8. unstationed
  9. unstationing
  10. unstations
  11. unstatistic

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