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Fanged vs Unfanged - What's the difference?

fanged | unfanged |

As adjectives the difference between fanged and unfanged

is that fanged is equipped with fangs while unfanged is not fanged, without fangs.

As verbs the difference between fanged and unfanged

is that fanged is (fang) while unfanged is (unfang).

fanged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Equipped with fangs.
  • * 1826 , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=577940525&textreg=1&query=+fanged&id=SheLast]
  • *:...love, the tyrant and the tyrant-queller; love, until now my conqueror, now my slave; the hungry fire, the untameable beast, the fanged snake -- -no -- no -- I will have nothing to do with that love.
  • * 1903 , Jack London, Call of the Wild [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=447240988&textreg=1&query=+fanged&id=LonCall]
    • He sat by John Thornton's fire, a broad-breasted dog, white fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves ...

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fang)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    unfanged

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not fanged, without fangs

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (unfang)

    • unfang

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deprive of fangs.
  • (figuratively) To render harmless.

    • Synonyms

    * (render harmless) declaw