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  • verb Present participle of uncrate.

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Examples

  • A video Ezarik made of her experience uncrating the bill has been viewed online more than 100,000 times since Monday.

    iPhones Killing Trees? | Impact Lab 2007

  • They were joined by Costas, who had been winched down from the US Air Force Chinook fifteen minutes before and had been busy uncrating his cargo on the stern deck.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • They were joined by Costas, who had been winched down from the US Air Force Chinook fifteen minutes before and had been busy uncrating his cargo on the stern deck.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Livy was frantically completing the restoration of the Farmington Avenue house, uncrating the last of the European furniture, bric-a-brac, and crockery and distributing it among the rooms.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Livy was frantically completing the restoration of the Farmington Avenue house, uncrating the last of the European furniture, bric-a-brac, and crockery and distributing it among the rooms.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Trying to juggle meals, dishwashing, bedmaking, and daily cleaning with the uncrating of boxes had only prolonged the day when it would all be done.

    The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003

  • Trying to juggle meals, dishwashing, bedmaking, and daily cleaning with the uncrating of boxes had only prolonged the day when it would all be done.

    The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003

  • Trying to juggle meals, dishwashing, bedmaking, and daily cleaning with the uncrating of boxes had only prolonged the day when it would all be done.

    The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003

  • Trying to juggle meals, dishwashing, bedmaking, and daily cleaning with the uncrating of boxes had only prolonged the day when it would all be done.

    The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003

  • I found Mr. Boudreau at the back of his property, under shade trees by the coulee, uncrating and assembling an irrigation pump.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

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