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unwindow

unwindow verb: to remove the window(s) or pane(s) from.

Verb

unwindow (third-person singular simple present unwindows, present participle unwindowing, simple past and past participle unwindowed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To remove the window(s) or pane(s) from.
    • A Window in the Kitchin that had been much batter’d before, was now quite broke out, and unwindow’d, no Glass or Lead at all being left […]1698, Richard Chamberlayne, Lithobolia, or, The Stone-Throwing Devil, London
    • 1710,) Charles Shadwell, The Fair Quaker of Deal: or, the Humours of the Navy, London: T. Lowndes, 1769, Act III, p. 48,
      Well, now we have got rid of the rum Duke, being in a very merry Humour, let us put it to the Vote, whether we shall beat the Mayor and Corporation, and drown the Constable; or...

Forms of unwindow

third-person singular presentunwindows
present participleunwindowing
past participleunwindowed
pastunwindowed

Origin of unwindow

From un- + window.

Questions about unwindow

What does unwindow mean?
Unwindow means to remove the window(s) or pane(s) from.
What part of speech is unwindow?
Unwindow is a verb.
What is the past tense of unwindow?
The past tense of unwindow is unwindowed.

Words near unwindow in the dictionary

  1. unwinders
  2. unwindeth
  3. unwinding
  4. unwindingly
  5. unwindings
  6. unwindow
  7. unwindowed
  8. unwinds
  9. unwindy
  10. Unwinese
  11. Unwinesque

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