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unwedging

unwedging is the present participle and gerund of unwedge.

Meaning of unwedge

Verb

unwedge (third-person singular simple present unwedges, present participle unwedging, simple past and past participle unwedged)

  1. (transitive) To free from a wedged state or position.
    • I needed a better angle to unwedge the shoe, and the only way to achieve that would involve stepping out of the shoe and placing my bare foot on the dirty sidewalk. Unable to stomach that option, I futilely wrenched harder.2020, Liza Malloy, The Brothers' Band

Questions about unwedging

What is unwedging the present participle and gerund of?
Unwedging is the present participle and gerund of unwedge.

Words near unwedging in the dictionary

  1. unweddings
  2. unwedge
  3. unwedgeable
  4. unwedged
  5. unwedges
  6. unwedging
  7. unweds
  8. unweed
  9. unweeded
  10. unweeding
  11. unweeds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwedging (page history and authors); unwedge (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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