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untrill

untrill verb: to remove the trill from.

Verb

untrill (third-person singular simple present untrills, present participle untrilling, simple past and past participle untrilled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the trill from.
    • Even in such a language as German some one must have begun to make his [r] into a back sound, and to untrill it, and it was only gradually that the change spread through whole communities.1994, Dugald Stewart, Comparativist Controversies, volumes 1-2, page 28

Forms of untrill

third-person singular presentuntrills
present participleuntrilling
past participleuntrilled
pastuntrilled

Origin of untrill

From un- + trill.

Questions about untrill

What does untrill mean?
Untrill means to remove the trill from.
What part of speech is untrill?
Untrill is a verb.
What is the past tense of untrill?
The past tense of untrill is untrilled.

Words near untrill in the dictionary

  1. untriggered
  2. untriggering
  3. untriggers
  4. untrigintillion
  5. untrihexium
  6. untrill
  7. untrilled
  8. untrilling
  9. untrills
  10. untrim
  11. untrimmable

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