unhook
verb (used with object)
to detach by or as if by releasing a hook.
are unhooking
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present progressiveof unhook.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Simultaneously, other men are unhooking parts from adjacent conveyors—the carburetor, the distributor, the intake manifold—and connecting them to the engine block.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
