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unstopper

unstopper verb: to remove the stopper from.

Verb

unstopper (third-person singular simple present unstoppers, present participle unstoppering, simple past and past participle unstoppered)

  1. (transitive) To remove the stopper from.
    • He unstoppered the little flask and took a few swigs.
    • In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18

Forms of unstopper

third-person singular presentunstoppers
present participleunstoppering
past participleunstoppered
pastunstoppered

Origin of unstopper

From un- + stopper.

Questions about unstopper

What does unstopper mean?
Unstopper means to remove the stopper from.
What part of speech is unstopper?
Unstopper is a verb.
What is the past tense of unstopper?
The past tense of unstopper is unstoppered.

Words near unstopper in the dictionary

  1. unstoppability
  2. unstoppable
  3. unstoppableness
  4. unstoppably
  5. unstopped
  6. unstopper
  7. unstoppered
  8. unstoppering
  9. unstoppers
  10. unstopping
  11. unstoppingly

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