Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unscrew
adjectiveunscrewed (not comparable)
- not comparableNot having been screwed.
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.
1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
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unscrewed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unscrewed
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“unscrewed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unscrewed. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unscrewed,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unscrewed.
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