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gunzipping

gunzipping is the present participle and gerund of gunzip.

Meaning of gunzip

Verb

gunzip (third-person singular simple present gunzips, present participle gunzipping, simple past and past participle gunzipped)

  1. (transitive) To decompress using the gzip program.
    Synonyms:
    ungzip
    Antonyms:
    gzip

Questions about gunzipping

What is gunzipping the present participle and gerund of?
Gunzipping is the present participle and gerund of gunzip.

Words near gunzipping in the dictionary

  1. gunzels
  2. Gunzian
  3. Gunzib
  4. gunzip
  5. gunzipped
  6. gunzipping
  7. gunzips
  8. Guo
  9. Guo'anbu
  10. Guoanbu
  11. guokui

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gunzipping (page history and authors); gunzip (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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