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recomment

recomment verb: to convert (a portion of source code, configuration, etc.) back to a comment, so that it no longer takes effect.

Verb

recomment (third-person singular simple present recomments, present participle recommenting, simple past and past participle recommented)

  1. (transitive) To convert (a portion of source code, configuration, etc.) back to a comment, so that it no longer takes effect.
    • When all these things are done and the blank lines are removed (and the code recommented), we have […]1997, William B. Jones, Assembly Language for the IBM PC Family, page 586
    • Once you have run the program, you can “recomment” the line back to the way it was.2015, Jack Purdum, Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition

Forms of recomment

third-person singular presentrecomments
present participlerecommenting
past participlerecommented
pastrecommented

Origin of recomment

From re- + comment.

Questions about recomment

What does recomment mean?
Recomment means to convert (a portion of source code, configuration, etc.) back to a comment, so that it no longer takes effect.
What part of speech is recomment?
Recomment is a verb.
What is the past tense of recomment?
The past tense of recomment is recommented.

Words near recomment in the dictionary

  1. recommendees
  2. recommender
  3. recommenders
  4. recommending
  5. recommends
  6. recomment
  7. recommented
  8. recommenting
  9. recomments
  10. recommerce
  11. recommercialize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recomment (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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