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unabbreviate

unabbreviate verb: to make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.

Verb

unabbreviate (third-person singular simple present unabbreviates, present participle unabbreviating, simple past and past participle unabbreviated)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.
    • It is easy to see what is going on, if in G & ∀x∃yP(x, y) we not only unabbreviate G, but take the outer conjunctions apart, […]1967, Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, Dover, published 2002, page 293
    Synonyms:
    deabbreviate

Synonyms of unabbreviate

Forms of unabbreviate

third-person singular presentunabbreviates
present participleunabbreviating
past participleunabbreviated
pastunabbreviated

Origin of unabbreviate

From un- + abbreviate.

Questions about unabbreviate

What does unabbreviate mean?
Unabbreviate means to make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.
What part of speech is unabbreviate?
Unabbreviate is a verb.
What is the past tense of unabbreviate?
The past tense of unabbreviate is unabbreviated.

Words near unabbreviate in the dictionary

  1. unabates
  2. unabating
  3. unabatingly
  4. unabbreviable
  5. unabbreviatable
  6. unabbreviate
  7. unabbreviated
  8. unabbreviates
  9. unabbreviating
  10. unabbreviation
  11. unabbreviations

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