Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsmother

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-smoth-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To release (someone) from smothering.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"A tale, a very tale, Angelo, enter for the loue of heauen, enter and vnſmother me."
"Write out a conversation of "smothered thoughts." Then "unsmother" them."
"In addition, we also often insert inactive verb motors in our writing that really drag. We must then both unsmother our verbs and replace them with words that make the sentence move."
"No more strangleholds! Ungag our souls!! Unstrangle our souls!! Unsmother our souls!!"
"I am quite smothered with grief, but love requires me to unsmother what unhappiness smothers in me, and my smothered mutterings must be mutedly unsmothered, for I can no longer smother the mutterings I now must unsmother."
"He bent down to unsmother a still-warm vineroot and coaxed it alive."

Etymology

From un- + smother.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unsmothers (present, singular) unsmothering (participle, present) unsmothered (participle, past) unsmothered (past)

Questions

What does unsmother mean?: To release (someone) from smothering.
Where does unsmother come from?: From un- + smother.

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