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unzoning

unzoning is the present participle and gerund of unzone.

Meaning of unzone

Verb

unzone (third-person singular simple present unzones, present participle unzoning, simple past and past participle unzoned)

  1. (transitive) To remove from an assigned zone or zoning.
    • St. Claude Avenue, from Poland to Delery Street is now zoned and I trust the Council will not unzone it and open it up to picture shows and other business places.1929, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 18
  2. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To free from a girdle.
    • To this sad urn the fragrant cypress bring, / With the soft violets of the budding spring; / Breathe the deep sigh, unzone the sobbing breast, / And bid these ashes in sweet slumbers rest;1834, William Stanley Roscoe, Poems, page 116

Questions about unzoning

What is unzoning the present participle and gerund of?
Unzoning is the present participle and gerund of unzone.

Words near unzoning in the dictionary

  1. unzombified
  2. unzombify
  3. unzone
  4. unzoned
  5. unzones
  6. unzoning
  7. unzoom
  8. unzoomed
  9. unzooming
  10. unzooms
  11. Unzueta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unzoning (page history and authors); unzone (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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