Home › Words › U › unswingunswingunswing means to reverse the act of swinging.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, unswing ranks #16,749 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom un- + swing.verbTo reverse the act of swinging.e.g.“He watched the crew unswing the boat, get in, and leave the Bessie.” — 1887, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).