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present singular third person unshales · participle present unshaling · participle past unshaled · past unshaled
- obsoleterareTo strip of the shale (shell) or husk
unshale the rice
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I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe.
1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page)- figurativelyobsoleterareto uncover.
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unshale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshale
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