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Unbowed vs Unboned - What's the difference?

unbowed | unboned |

As an adjective unbowed

is not bowed; erect or upright.

As a verb unboned is

past tense of unbone.

unbowed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not bowed; erect or upright.
  • Not subdued or deterred.
  • * 1998 July 3, , " Anti-Government Freemen Are Found Guilty of Fraud," New York Times (retrieved 8 Aug 2012):
  • Unbowed after two years in jail, nine of the defendants boycotted the trial, refusing even to talk to their lawyers.

    unboned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unbone)

  • unbone

    English

    Verb

    (unbon)
  • To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.
  • (obsolete) To twist about, as if boneless.
  • (Milton)
    (Webster 1913)