unbolster

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verb

To remove the support from.

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Meanings

verbunbolster (third-person singular simple present unbolsters, present participle unbolstering, simple past and past participle unbolstered)

present singular third person unbolsters · participle present unbolstering · participle past unbolstered · past unbolstered

  1. transitiveTo remove the support from.

    What can unbolster a man whose trust in his morality, or pious education, or social virtues, props him up to a fancied superiority to the provisions of the Gospel; what, but the truth, […]?

    1859, Gregory Thurston Bedell, Fellow Workers: Two Sermons, page 36

Origin

From un- + bolster.

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APA

unbolster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbolster

MLA

“unbolster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbolster. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbolster,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbolster.

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