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unswallowing

unswallowing is the present participle and gerund of unswallow.

Meaning of unswallow

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

Questions about unswallowing

What is unswallowing the present participle and gerund of?
Unswallowing is the present participle and gerund of unswallow.

Words near unswallowing in the dictionary

  1. unswagged
  2. unswallow
  3. unswallowable
  4. unswallowableness
  5. unswallowed
  6. unswallowing
  7. unswallows
  8. unswank
  9. unswanky
  10. unswanlike
  11. unswappable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unswallowing (page history and authors); unswallow (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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