Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To remove a physical cap or cover from.

  2. (transitive)To remove a cap or limit from.

    to uncap the frame rate of a game console emulator

  3. (intransitive)To take off one's cap.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From un- + cap. Piecewise doublet of uncape.

From un- + cap. Piecewise doublet of uncape.

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Forms

uncaps, uncapping, uncapped, uncapped
Base formuncap · to uncap
3rd person singularuncaps
Present participleuncapping
Past simpleuncapped
Past participleuncapped

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyuncap
he, she, ituncaps

Past simpleLesson

all personsuncapped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave uncapped
he, she, ithas uncapped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill uncap

Word family

1 related words
Deriveduncapper

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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