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untwirling

untwirling is the present participle and gerund of untwirl.

Meaning of untwirl

Verb

untwirl (third-person singular simple present untwirls, present participle untwirling, simple past and past participle untwirled)

  1. To untwist; to undo.
    • Edward Topham, The Poetry of The World
      the latchet of the door untwirl'd

Questions about untwirling

What is untwirling the present participle and gerund of?
Untwirling is the present participle and gerund of untwirl.

Words near untwirling in the dictionary

  1. untwinkles
  2. untwinkling
  3. untwinned
  4. untwirl
  5. untwirled
  6. untwirling
  7. untwirls
  8. untwist
  9. untwistable
  10. untwisted
  11. untwister

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untwirling (page history and authors); untwirl (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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