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ctrl-z

ctrl-z verb: to undo an action.

Verb

ctrl-z (third-person singular simple present ctrl-z's, present participle ctrl-z'ing, simple past and past participle ctrl-z'd or ctrl-z'ed)

  1. To undo an action.

Forms of ctrl-z

third-person singular presentctrl-z's
present participlectrl-z'ing
past participlectrl-z'd
pastctrl-z'd
past participlectrl-z'ed
pastctrl-z'ed
alternative formCtrl+Z
alternative formCtrl-Z

Origin of ctrl-z

Derived from a common keyboard shortcut involving pressing the two keys together.

Questions about ctrl-z

What does ctrl-z mean?
Ctrl-z means to undo an action.
What part of speech is ctrl-z?
Ctrl-z is a verb.
What is the past tense of ctrl-z?
The past tense of ctrl-z is ctrl-z'd.

Words near ctrl-z in the dictionary

  1. ctrl-c's
  2. ctrl-v
  3. ctrl-v'ed
  4. ctrl-v'ing
  5. ctrl-v's
  6. ctrl-z
  7. ctrl.
  8. ctRNA
  9. ctRNAs
  10. ctrs
  11. cts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ctrl-z (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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