unhood

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verb

To remove the hood from.

Opposite
hood
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Meanings

verbunhood (third-person singular simple present unhoods, present participle unhooding, simple past and past participle unhooded)

present singular third person unhoods · participle present unhooding · participle past unhooded · past unhooded

  1. transitiveTo remove the hood from.

    He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.

    2002, Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey, page 109
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    there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes[…].

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

    Antonyms: hood

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo remove the hood from.

Opposite
hood

Origin

From un- + hood.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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