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unstranding

unstranding is the present participle and gerund of unstrand.

Meaning of unstrand

Verb

unstrand (third-person singular simple present unstrands, present participle unstranding, simple past and past participle unstranded)

  1. (transitive) To separate the strands of.
    • A convenient supply for this is to unstrand ordinary antenna cable[…]1927, Radio, volume 9, page 24
  2. (intransitive) To separate into its individual strands.
    • Elsa's skirt was splashed with wet and her bun was beginning to unstrand.2004, Esther Freud, The Sea House

Questions about unstranding

What is unstranding the present participle and gerund of?
Unstranding is the present participle and gerund of unstrand.

Words near unstranding in the dictionary

  1. unstraitened
  2. unstraked
  3. unstrand
  4. unstrandable
  5. unstranded
  6. unstranding
  7. unstrands
  8. unstrange
  9. unstranged
  10. unstrangeness
  11. unstranges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unstranding (page history and authors); unstrand (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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