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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unslice en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + slice.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To undo the process of slicing.
    • While unshowering, driving in reverse, or unslicing a loaf of bread, all thoughts would proceed backward as well, so nobody would even know the difference between the strange events taking place and normal life. 2013, Paul G. Halpern, The Cyclical Serpent: Prospects for an Ever-Repeating Universe, page 235:
    • If only sliced bread is available, you buy it, and it is both superfluous and impossible to try to unslice it; so you end up eating it, and enjoying the convenience. 2017, John Theobald, The Media and the Making of History:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unslicing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unsliced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unsliced Tense=Past lexicographic
unslices Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic