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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unmechanize en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + mechanize.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To undo the mechanism of something.
    • What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments, which has not fallen upon thy head, or ever thou camest into the world! 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 227:

Forms

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unmechanized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unmechanized Tense=Past lexicographic
unmechanizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unmechanizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic