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- not comparableNot wearing shoes.
Rowena, with one ungainly unshoed foot Shoves the pail against the plastered wall
2010, Robert Joseph Foley, “Doppelgänger”, in These Little Poems of Death and After Life, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 712 more examples
[…] he taught the uncovered head to dare the winter's snow; the unshoed foot to brave the biting ice […]
1814, James Fennell, An Apology for the Life of James Fennell, Moses Thomas, page 380Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know.
1998, Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife, Perennial, published 2001, →ISBN, page 83Synonyms: unshod, shoeless, barefoot, barefooted, discalceate, discalced · Antonyms: shod
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unshoe
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adjectivenot shod
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unshoed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshoed
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