Word.ws English Dictionary

upcoil

upcoil verb: to coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

Verb

upcoil (third-person singular simple present upcoils, present participle upcoiling, simple past and past participle upcoiled)

  1. (rare) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

Forms of upcoil

third-person singular presentupcoils
present participleupcoiling
past participleupcoiled
pastupcoiled

Origin of upcoil

From up- + coil.

Questions about upcoil

What does upcoil mean?
Upcoil means to coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.
What part of speech is upcoil?
Upcoil is a verb.
What is the past tense of upcoil?
The past tense of upcoil is upcoiled.

Words near upcoil in the dictionary

  1. upcoast
  2. upcode
  3. upcoded
  4. upcodes
  5. upcoding
  6. upcoil
  7. upcoiled
  8. upcoiling
  9. upcoils
  10. upcome
  11. upcomer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upcoil (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “upcoil.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/upcoil. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.