unmould

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7

Definition of unmould

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To remove from a mould.
    “place weight on top and when chilled unmould and garnish with watercress or sprigs of parsley .”
    “A biodegradable oil and water emulsion release composition for facilitating the unmoulding of hydraulic bonding material comprises , as the oil component , an ester of a hindered polyhydric alcohol having no hydrogen atoms attached to any carbon atom in a beta - position to any hydroxyl group and a straight or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated C4 to C24 monocarboxylic acid.”
    “I used a small glass bowl that I filled to the brim, an important point for you do not want the concoction to fall apart when you unmould it.”
    “Make sure soaps are completely cold and set before attempting to unmould them .”
See all 2 definitions

verb

  1. (transitive)To remove from a mould.
    “place weight on top and when chilled unmould and garnish with watercress or sprigs of parsley .”
    “A biodegradable oil and water emulsion release composition for facilitating the unmoulding of hydraulic bonding material comprises , as the oil component , an ester of a hindered polyhydric alcohol having no hydrogen atoms attached to any carbon atom in a beta - position to any hydroxyl group and a straight or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated C4 to C24 monocarboxylic acid.”
    “I used a small glass bowl that I filled to the brim, an important point for you do not want the concoction to fall apart when you unmould it.”
    “Make sure soaps are completely cold and set before attempting to unmould them .”
  2. (transitive)To change the form of; to reduce or unmake from any form.
    “Unmoulding reason's mintage.”
    “and the restless elements of opinion, throughout every region of debate, moulding themselves eternally, like the billowy sands of the desert, as beheld by Bruce, into towering columns that soar upwards to a giddy altitude, then stalk about for a minute, all a-glow with fiery color, and finally unmould and 'dislimn,' with a collapse as sudden as the motions of that eddying breeze, under which their vapory architecture arose.”
    “Wipe out the paints, unmould the clay. Let nothing remain of that yesterday.'”
    “Time takes out the sting of pain; our sorrows after a certain period have been so often steeped in a medium of though and passion, that they 'unmould their essence;' and all that remains of our original impressions is what we would wish them to have been.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From un- + mould.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to unmould to make another valid word.

Find your best play with unmould

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes unmould, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.