uncoach en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + coach.
Meanings
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(obsolete) To detach from a coach (vehicle).
These, here arriv'd, the mules uncoach'd, and drave Up to the gulfy river's shore, that gave Sweet grass to them.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
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(transitive) To unteach
Following my run with him, I was less concerned about his physical skills and strength as I was unwiring or uncoaching what had been imprinted into his mind.
2014, Charles Martin, A Life Intercepted:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| uncoaches | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| uncoached | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| uncoached | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| uncoaching | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |