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unswallow

unswallow verb: to undo the swallowing of.

Verb

unswallow (third-person singular simple present unswallows, present participle unswallowing, simple past and past participle unswallowed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To undo the swallowing of.
    • She stopped and tried to unswallow her tongue.2013, D. Dalton, Nia Shay, Steamscape

Forms of unswallow

third-person singular presentunswallows
present participleunswallowing
past participleunswallowed
pastunswallowed

Origin of unswallow

From un- + swallow.

Questions about unswallow

What does unswallow mean?
Unswallow means to undo the swallowing of.
What part of speech is unswallow?
Unswallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of unswallow?
The past tense of unswallow is unswallowed.

Words near unswallow in the dictionary

  1. unswaddle
  2. unswaddled
  3. unswaddles
  4. unswaddling
  5. unswagged
  6. unswallow
  7. unswallowable
  8. unswallowableness
  9. unswallowed
  10. unswallowing
  11. unswallows

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