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unwatching

unwatching is the present participle and gerund of unwatch.

Meaning of unwatch

Verb

unwatch (third-person singular simple present unwatches, present participle unwatching, simple past and past participle unwatched)

  1. (rare, transitive) To undo the watching of something; to unsee.
    • I wish I could unwatch this nightmare so that I wouldn't have this baggage knocking around in my brain for the rest of my life. Never, for the love of God, watch this movie.2004, Charles Roxburgh, Matt Farley, Tom Scalzo, ShockJuly: An Adventure in Horror, page 65
  2. (transitive, wiki jargon) To remove (a webpage) from one's watchlist.
    • To unwatch a page, you can simply revisit the page; you'll notice the tab now says Unwatch. Click the tab again to remove the page.2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 319

Questions about unwatching

What is unwatching the present participle and gerund of?
Unwatching is the present participle and gerund of unwatch.

Words near unwatching in the dictionary

  1. unwatched
  2. unwatches
  3. unwatchful
  4. unwatchfully
  5. unwatchfulness
  6. unwatching
  7. unwater
  8. unwaterable
  9. unwatered
  10. unwatering
  11. unwaterlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwatching (page history and authors); unwatch (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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