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unsteel

unsteel verb: to disarm; to soften.

Verb

unsteel (third-person singular simple present unsteels, present participle unsteeling, simple past and past participle unsteeled)

  1. (transitive) To disarm; to soften.
    • Thou hast his conqu’ring Sword unsteel’d,
      His Valour turn’d to shameful Flight.1696, Nahum Tate, Nicholas Brady, A New Version of the Psalms of David, London: The Company of Stationers, Psalm 89, Part 2, v. 43, p. 185
    • Why then should this enervating pity unsteel my foolish heart?1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 215

Forms of unsteel

third-person singular presentunsteels
present participleunsteeling
past participleunsteeled
pastunsteeled

Origin of unsteel

From un- + steel.

Questions about unsteel

What does unsteel mean?
Unsteel means to disarm; to soften.
What part of speech is unsteel?
Unsteel is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsteel?
The past tense of unsteel is unsteeled.

Words near unsteel in the dictionary

  1. unstealthy
  2. unsteamed
  3. unsteaming
  4. unsteamy
  5. unsteckered
  6. unsteel
  7. unsteeled
  8. unsteeling
  9. unsteels
  10. unsteely
  11. unsteep

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