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untacking

untacking is the present participle and gerund of untack.

Meaning of untack

Verb

untack (third-person singular simple present untacks, present participle untacking, simple past and past participle untacked)

  1. (transitive) To unfasten (something tacked).
  2. (transitive) To remove the tack from.

Questions about untacking

What is untacking the present participle and gerund of?
Untacking is the present participle and gerund of untack.

Words near untacking in the dictionary

  1. untabulated
  2. UNTAC
  3. untaciturn
  4. untack
  5. untacked
  6. untacking
  7. untackle
  8. untackled
  9. untackles
  10. untackling
  11. untacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untacking (page history and authors); untack (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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