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unsuction

unsuction verb: to remove suction, such as when suction cups become detached.

Verb

unsuction (third-person singular simple present unsuctions, present participle unsuctioning, simple past and past participle unsuctioned)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To remove suction, such as when suction cups become detached.
    • Then it will plant its setae onto my cheek, onto the bridge of my nose and onto my dark eyes; it will pivot its torso over the temples of my skull, suctioning and unsuctioning its feet; and as it crawls across my transparent forehead2017, White Dialogues, page 107
    • But... they didn't turn out very well. I unsuctioned and fell right on your newly-made bed.2018 Bree Bunny to Felicity Fox, "Best Adventure", Enchantimals: Tales from Everwilde

Noun

unsuction (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The removal of suction.
    • When he removed them, it was with an audible 'plop' of unsuction.2012, Will Self, The Butt

Forms of unsuction

third-person singular presentunsuctions
present participleunsuctioning
past participleunsuctioned
pastunsuctioned

Origin of unsuction

From un- + suction.

Questions about unsuction

What does unsuction mean?
Unsuction means to remove suction, such as when suction cups become detached.
What part of speech is unsuction?
Unsuction can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of unsuction?
The past tense of unsuction is unsuctioned.

Words near unsuction in the dictionary

  1. unsuccumbing
  2. unsuckable
  3. unsucked
  4. unsuckered
  5. unsuckled
  6. unsuction
  7. unsuctioned
  8. unsuctioning
  9. unsuctions
  10. unsudden
  11. unsuddenly

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