MEANING
To draw something from a sheath or remove its sheathlike covering.
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Words that belong together
- unsheathe a blade
- an unsheathed edge
On the page
She unsheathed the blade without looking away from the door.
The mechanism unsheathed its cutting edge as it extended.
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Word forms
- Base
- unsheathe
- Past tense
- unsheathed
- Past participle
- unsheathed
- Present participle
- unsheathing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- unsheathe
- Present continuous
- am/is/are unsheathing
- Present perfect
- have/has unsheathed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been unsheathing
- Past
- unsheathed
- Past continuous
- was/were unsheathing
- Past perfect
- had unsheathed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been unsheathing
- Future
- will unsheathe
- Future continuous
- will be unsheathing
- Future perfect
- will have unsheathed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been unsheathing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: unsheathe; unsheathes; unsheathed; unsheathed; unsheathing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: unsheathes.
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