unmould

English

Alternative forms

• unmold

Etymology

un- +‎ mould

Verb

unmould (third-person singular simple present unmoulds, present participle unmoulding, simple past and past participle unmoulded)

1. (transitive) To remove from a mould.
   • 2009, Sylvia Tan, Taste: Healthy, Hearty Asian Recipes, page 41:

     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.

2. (transitive) To change the form of; to reduce from any form.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     Unmoulding reasons mintage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unmould”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)