unlimb

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verb

To remove a limb or limbs from.

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Meanings

verbunlimb (third-person singular simple present unlimbs, present participle unlimbing, simple past and past participle unlimbed)

present singular third person unlimbs · participle present unlimbing · participle past unlimbed · past unlimbed

  1. transitiveTo remove a limb or limbs from.

    The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.

    2007, Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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    […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From un- + limb.

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APA

unlimb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlimb

MLA

“unlimb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlimb. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unlimb,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlimb.

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