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untopping

untopping is the present participle and gerund of untop.

Meaning of untop

Verb

untop (third-person singular simple present untops, present participle untopping, simple past and past participle untopped)

  1. (transitive) To remove the top from.

Noun

untopping (uncountable)

  1. Removal of overburden from an old mine to allow continued economic operation.
    • J.E. Greave's diaries tell us he took this suggestion on board, and on 4 September 1894 he and his brother R.M Greaves began discussing the "untopping" of a large area at Llechwedd.2003, Ivor Wynne Jones, Victorian Slate Mining, page 59
    • Untopping enabled a road to be built into part of Llechwedd in Ffestiniog in the 1960s2015, David Gwyn, Welsh Slate: Archaeology and History of an Industry, page 131

Questions about untopping

What does untopping mean?
Untopping means removal of overburden from an old mine to allow continued economic operation.
What is untopping the present participle and gerund of?
Untopping is the present participle and gerund of untop.
What part of speech is untopping?
Untopping is a noun.

Words near untopping in the dictionary

  1. untopia
  2. untopical
  3. untopographical
  4. untoppable
  5. untopped
  6. untopping
  7. untoppled
  8. untops
  9. untorched
  10. untormented
  11. untorn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untopping (page history and authors); untop (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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