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Unpursed vs Unpurses - What's the difference?

unpursed | unpurses |

As verbs the difference between unpursed and unpurses

is that unpursed is past tense of unpurse while unpurses is third-person singular of unpurse.

As an adjective unpursed

is not pursed.

unpursed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (unpurse)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Not pursed.
  • * 1975 , George Daniel Spache, Good reading for the disadvantaged reader: multi-ethnic resources (page 14)
  • Obviously, verbal praise or encouragement should not be given without appropriate inflection of the voice and related facial expressions, and yet how often we hear these encouraging cliches fall from unpursed lips in an expressionless face.

    unpurses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unpurse)

  • unpurse

    English

    Verb

    (unpurs)
  • To bring (one's lips) back from a pursed expression.