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uncollapse

uncollapse verb: to expand (something previously collapsed).

Verb

uncollapse (third-person singular simple present uncollapses, present participle uncollapsing, simple past and past participle uncollapsed)

  1. (transitive) To expand (something previously collapsed).
    • Thus, you can insert a 1-pixel block spacer between blocks to uncollapse their margins (and add one extra pixel of space).2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 275

Forms of uncollapse

third-person singular presentuncollapses
present participleuncollapsing
past participleuncollapsed
pastuncollapsed

Origin of uncollapse

From un- + collapse.

Questions about uncollapse

What does uncollapse mean?
Uncollapse means to expand (something previously collapsed).
What part of speech is uncollapse?
Uncollapse is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncollapse?
The past tense of uncollapse is uncollapsed.

Words near uncollapse in the dictionary

  1. uncoked
  2. uncoking
  3. uncollaborative
  4. uncollaboratively
  5. uncollaged
  6. uncollapse
  7. uncollapsed
  8. uncollapses
  9. uncollapsible
  10. uncollapsing
  11. uncollar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncollapse (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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