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uncommit

uncommit verb: to cancel being committed to something; to release from obligation.

Verb

uncommit (third-person singular simple present uncommits, present participle uncommitting, simple past and past participle uncommitted)

  1. (transitive) To cancel being committed to something; to release from obligation.
    • For now, the brief answer is: believing that I am always free to uncommit myself is not the same as having reason to think that I will do so.2011, Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, page 97
  2. (transitive) To undo a change that had been applied.
    • to uncommit a transaction

Forms of uncommit

third-person singular presentuncommits
present participleuncommitting
past participleuncommitted
pastuncommitted

Origin of uncommit

From un- + commit.

Questions about uncommit

What does uncommit mean?
Uncommit means to cancel being committed to something; to release from obligation.
What part of speech is uncommit?
Uncommit is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncommit?
The past tense of uncommit is uncommitted.

Words near uncommit in the dictionary

  1. uncommingled
  2. uncomminuted
  3. uncommiserated
  4. uncommiserating
  5. uncommissioned
  6. uncommit
  7. uncommits
  8. uncommittable
  9. uncommitted
  10. uncommitted logic array
  11. uncommitted logic arrays

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