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unstuff

unstuff verb: to remove the stuffing from.

Verb

unstuff (third-person singular simple present unstuffs, present participle unstuffing, simple past and past participle unstuffed)

  1. (transitive) To remove the stuffing from.
  2. (transitive) To decompress (a compressed archive in the StuffIt format).
    • If I send you an attachment as a Zip file, can you unstuff it and print it up here?”2007 August 24, Roger Mummert, “At a Family Gathering, an Internet Cafe Breaks Out”, in New York Times

Forms of unstuff

third-person singular presentunstuffs
present participleunstuffing
past participleunstuffed
pastunstuffed

Origin of unstuff

From un- + stuff.

Questions about unstuff

What does unstuff mean?
Unstuff means to remove the stuffing from.
What part of speech is unstuff?
Unstuff is a verb.
What is the past tense of unstuff?
The past tense of unstuff is unstuffed.

Words near unstuff in the dictionary

  1. unstudiedly
  2. unstudiedness
  3. unstudious
  4. unstudiously
  5. unstudiousness
  6. unstuff
  7. unstuffable
  8. unstuffed
  9. unstuffiness
  10. unstuffing
  11. unstuffs

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