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unfuse en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + fuse.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To separate before a fusion; to make no longer fused.
    • A fused hem is almost impossible to change because adhesive residue sticks all over the place when you try to unfuse it. 2040, Jan Saunders Maresh, Sewing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10008383948494:
    • Nobody can unfuse fused bones, Quen, nobody." 1997, Dana Redfield, Ezekiel's Chariot, Hampton Roads Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:
    • I've become permanently fused with him. And I can't unfuse. I'm sitting here waiting to unfuse 2003, Michael Pinsky, Future Present: Ethics And/as Science Fiction, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, page 176:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unfused Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unfused Tense=Past lexicographic
unfusing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unfuses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic