unstation

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verb

To remove from a station or fixed position.

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Meanings

verbunstation (third-person singular simple present unstations, present participle unstationing, simple past and past participle unstationed)

present singular third person unstations · participle present unstationing · participle past unstationed · past unstationed

  1. raretransitiveTo remove from a station or fixed position.

    Do I need to unstation him if I'm just running out of the room for a few minutes? No. Short departures are good because they get your puppy used to being left alone and show him that you won't desert him.

    2008, James DeBitetto, Sarah Hodgson, You and Your Puppy
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    The advance towards the 'freer play' of man's life sets out then from Dante and leads to Sordello itself: by ''unstationing' one of the Commedias own characters and then refashioning him, Browning can show how far poetry has come in the contrast between the two Sordellos.

    1983, Steve Ellis, Dante and English Poetry: Shelley to T. S. Eliot, page 69

Origin

From un- + station.

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APA

unstation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstation

MLA

“unstation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unstation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstation.

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