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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uncoach en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + coach.

Meanings

  1. (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:
  2. (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

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uncoaches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
uncoached Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
uncoached Tense=Past lexicographic
uncoaching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic