What does unfoul mean?
Unfoul means (transitive) To free (something snagged or fouled)..
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/ʌnˈfaʊl/ · verb
(transitive) To free (something snagged or fouled)..
‘We've lost quite a few men,’ the old man says as he energetically unfouls his rifle and carefully loads it with black powder that he extracts from a horn.
How one repairs a broken sled, the quickest way to unfoul the dog lines, how to prevent the dogs from tangling the lines after stops, and so on.
Use unfoul when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unfoul means (transitive) To free (something snagged or fouled)..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
‘We've lost quite a few men,’ the old man says as he energetically unfouls his rifle and carefully loads it with black powder that he extracts from a horn.
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