untrill

U1N1T1R1I1L1L1

verb

To remove the trill from.

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Meanings

verbuntrill (third-person singular simple present untrills, present participle untrilling, simple past and past participle untrilled)

present singular third person untrills · participle present untrilling · participle past untrilled · past untrilled

  1. transitivehuman sciencesTo remove the trill from.

    Even in such a language as German some one must have begun to make his [r] into a back sound, and to untrill it, and it was only gradually that the change spread through whole communities.

    1994, Dugald Stewart, Comparativist Controversies, volumes 1-2, page 28

Origin

From un- + trill.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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