Meaning

3 senses

  1. To straighten or flatten (remove a cocked shape).

    to uncock a hat

  2. (transitive)To let down the cock of (a firearm).

  3. To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Ravenswood sheathed his sword, uncocked and returned his pistol to his belt.

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Origin

From un- + cock.

From un- + cock.

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Forms

uncocks, uncocking, uncocked, uncocked
Base formuncock · to uncock
3rd person singularuncocks
Present participleuncocking
Past simpleuncocked
Past participleuncocked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyuncock
he, she, ituncocks

Past simpleLesson

all personsuncocked

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill uncock

Synonyms

1 synonyms
decock

Antonyms

1 antonyms
cock

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
uncleanunclearB1unclenchuncomfortableA2uncomfortablyB2uncommonB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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