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unstays

unstays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unstay.

Meaning of unstay

Verb

unstay (third-person singular simple present unstays, present participle unstaying, simple past and past participle unstayed)

  1. (transitive) To undo the establishment of; disestablish; dissolve; divest.
    • He plays with the late Watts-Dunton and gets good fun out of it; he rips open the sham, unstays the imperfect, sonnet ; he tackles all fretters of the great English instrument and worries them all, yet with a fine sanity.1918, Ford Madox Ford, The English review
  2. (transitive) To expel; expulse; remove; release; rid.
    • Staying on a mount that is trying to unstay you is a historic procedure of the livestock business.2005, Ivan Doig, English Creek

Questions about unstays

What is unstays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unstays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unstay.

Words near unstays in the dictionary

  1. unstay
  2. unstayable
  3. unstayed
  4. unstayedness
  5. unstaying
  6. unstays
  7. unsteadfast
  8. unsteadfastly
  9. unsteadfastness
  10. unsteadied
  11. unsteadier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unstays (page history and authors); unstay (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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