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unswirling

unswirling is the present participle and gerund of unswirl.

Meaning of unswirl

Verb

unswirl (third-person singular simple present unswirls, present participle unswirling, simple past and past participle unswirled)

  1. (transitive) To resolve or restraighten (something previously swirled).
    • The overlapping arm action of the crawl stroke allows a swimmer to feel the oncoming flow of water advance along the entry arm at the same time as the opposite arm is unswirling the flow from the hand and forearm at the finish of its stroke.2002, Cecil M. Colwin, Breakthrough Swimming

Questions about unswirling

What is unswirling the present participle and gerund of?
Unswirling is the present participle and gerund of unswirl.

Words near unswirling in the dictionary

  1. unswingled
  2. unswings
  3. unswiped
  4. unswirl
  5. unswirled
  6. unswirling
  7. unswirls
  8. unswitchable
  9. unswitched
  10. unswitchoffable
  11. unswivel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unswirling (page history and authors); unswirl (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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