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untapping

untapping is the present participle and gerund of untap.

Meaning of untap

Verb

untap (third-person singular simple present untaps, present participle untapping, simple past and past participle untapped)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To release a flow of (creativity, potential, etc.); to unleash.
  2. (board games) Opposite of tap; to return (transitive) a card or piece, or (intransitive) all available cards or pieces, to their original orientation (e.g. at the start of a new turn) to indicate that they are ready to be used again.

Questions about untapping

What is untapping the present participle and gerund of?
Untapping is the present participle and gerund of untap.

Words near untapping in the dictionary

  1. untapped
  2. untappice
  3. untappiced
  4. untappices
  5. untappicing
  6. untapping
  7. untaps
  8. untapt
  9. untar
  10. untared
  11. untargetable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untapping (page history and authors); untap (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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