Meanings
verbunmechanize (third-person singular simple present unmechanizes, present participle unmechanizing, simple past and past participle unmechanized)
present singular third person unmechanizes · participle present unmechanizing · participle past unmechanized · past unmechanized
- obsoletetransitiveTo undo the mechanism of something.
What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments, which has not fallen upon thy head, or ever thou camest into the world!
1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 227
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unmechanize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmechanize
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“unmechanize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmechanize. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmechanize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmechanize.
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