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uncopying

uncopying is the present participle and gerund of uncopy.

Meaning of uncopy

Verb

uncopy (third-person singular simple present uncopies, present participle uncopying, simple past and past participle uncopied)

  1. To undo a copy.
    • On the other hand, if there is an excess of free pyrophosphates over triphosphates, the reaction will tend to run the wrong way, and we'll be uncopying and ruining our copy.2023, Tony Hey, Feynman Lectures on Computation: Anniversary Edition, pages 5-21

Questions about uncopying

What is uncopying the present participle and gerund of?
Uncopying is the present participle and gerund of uncopy.

Words near uncopying in the dictionary

  1. uncoplike
  2. uncoppiced
  3. uncopy
  4. uncopyable
  5. uncopyedited
  6. uncopying
  7. uncopyrightability
  8. uncopyrightable
  9. uncopyrightables
  10. uncopyrighted
  11. uncoquettish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncopying (page history and authors); uncopy (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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