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unabbreviating

unabbreviating is the present participle and gerund of unabbreviate.

Meaning of unabbreviate

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

Questions about unabbreviating

What is unabbreviating the present participle and gerund of?
Unabbreviating is the present participle and gerund of unabbreviate.

Words near unabbreviating in the dictionary

  1. unabbreviable
  2. unabbreviatable
  3. unabbreviate
  4. unabbreviated
  5. unabbreviates
  6. unabbreviating
  7. unabbreviation
  8. unabbreviations
  9. unabdicate
  10. unabdicated
  11. unabdicates

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