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unstationing

unstationing is the present participle and gerund of unstation.

Meaning of unstation

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

Questions about unstationing

What is unstationing the present participle and gerund of?
Unstationing is the present participle and gerund of unstation.

Words near unstationing in the dictionary

  1. unstatic
  2. unstating
  3. unstation
  4. unstationary
  5. unstationed
  6. unstationing
  7. unstations
  8. unstatistic
  9. unstatistical
  10. unstatued
  11. unstatuesque

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