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unwresting

unwresting is the present participle and gerund of unwrest.

Meaning of unwrest

Verb

unwrest (third-person singular simple present unwrests, present participle unwresting, simple past and past participle unwrested)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To restore from a wrested or distorted state.
    • […] for that they were content somewhat to unwrest the sovereignty from the height whereunto he had strained it; which brought the state to a better proportion of harmony.a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England […]

Questions about unwresting

What is unwresting the present participle and gerund of?
Unwresting is the present participle and gerund of unwrest.

Words near unwresting in the dictionary

  1. unwrenched
  2. unwrenches
  3. unwrenching
  4. unwrest
  5. unwrested
  6. unwresting
  7. unwrestled
  8. unwrests
  9. unwretched
  10. unwriggle
  11. unwriggled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwresting (page history and authors); unwrest (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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