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uncenter

uncenter is the alternative form of uncentre.

Meaning of uncentre

Verb

uncentre (third-person singular simple present uncentres, present participle uncentring, simple past and past participle uncentred)

  1. (transitive) To move from the centre.
    • […]they will[…]perhaps know that centring is caused by an invisible control sequence, and be able to uncentre text by deleting these.1991, Alan Dix, Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 152

Forms of uncenter

third-person singular presentuncenters
present participleuncentering
past participleuncentered
pastuncentered

Origin of uncenter

From un- + center.

Questions about uncenter

What is uncenter the alternative form of?
Uncenter is the alternative form of uncentre.

Words near uncenter in the dictionary

  1. uncensors
  2. uncensorship
  3. uncensurable
  4. uncensured
  5. uncensuring
  6. uncenter
  7. uncentered
  8. uncenteredness
  9. uncentering
  10. uncenters
  11. uncentral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncenter (page history and authors); uncentre (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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