uncoach

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verb

To detach from a coach (vehicle).

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Meanings

verbuncoach (third-person singular simple present uncoaches, present participle uncoaching, simple past and past participle uncoached)

present singular third person uncoaches · participle present uncoaching · participle past uncoached · past uncoached

  1. obsoleteTo detach from a coach (vehicle).

    These, here arriv'd, the mules uncoach'd, and drave Up to the gulfy river's shore, that gave Sweet grass to them.

    1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC
  2. transitiveTo unteach

    Following my run with him, I was less concerned about his physical skills and strength as I was unwiring or uncoaching what had been imprinted into his mind.

    2014, Charles Martin, A Life Intercepted

Origin

From un- + coach.

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APA

uncoach. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncoach

MLA

“uncoach.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncoach. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncoach,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncoach.

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