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unstone

unstone verb: to undo the stoning of; to transform back from stone.

Verb

unstone (third-person singular simple present unstones, present participle unstoning, simple past and past participle unstoned)

  1. (rare, transitive) To undo the stoning of; to transform back from stone.
    • The unstoning of Hermione—itself a fairy tale and mythic restoration, stone into flesh—turns her to something Leontes links with food: […]2017, Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford, Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts

Proper noun capitalized: Unstone

Unstone

  1. A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3777).

Forms of unstone

third-person singular presentunstones
present participleunstoning
past participleunstoned
pastunstoned

Origin of unstone

From un- + stone.

From the unattested Old English personal name *Ōn or *Ōna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Questions about unstone

What does unstone mean?
Unstone means to undo the stoning of; to transform back from stone.
What part of speech is unstone?
Unstone can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of unstone?
The past tense of unstone is unstoned.

Words near unstone in the dictionary

  1. unstoked
  2. unstole
  3. unstolen
  4. unstolid
  5. unstomachable
  6. unstone
  7. unstoned
  8. unstones
  9. unstoning
  10. unstony
  11. unstooked

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