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unstuffing

unstuffing is the present participle and gerund of unstuff.

Meaning of unstuff

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

Questions about unstuffing

What is unstuffing the present participle and gerund of?
Unstuffing is the present participle and gerund of unstuff.

Words near unstuffing in the dictionary

  1. unstudiousness
  2. unstuff
  3. unstuffable
  4. unstuffed
  5. unstuffiness
  6. unstuffing
  7. unstuffs
  8. unstuffy
  9. unstuft
  10. unstultified
  11. unstultifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unstuffing (page history and authors); unstuff (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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