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unembed

unembed verb: to remove (something embedded) from what it is fixed in.

Verb

unembed (third-person singular simple present unembeds, present participle unembedding, simple past and past participle unembedded)

  1. (transitive) To remove (something embedded) from what it is fixed in.
    • It goes on and gets rather graphic as Jimmy, under the impression that he’s speaking to someone at The Herald, pleads to be unembedded.2007 August 4, Christopher Buckley, “Our Man in Iraq, Embedded Unhappily”, in New York Times

Forms of unembed

third-person singular presentunembeds
present participleunembedding
past participleunembedded
pastunembedded

Origin of unembed

From un- + embed.

Questions about unembed

What does unembed mean?
Unembed means to remove (something embedded) from what it is fixed in.
What part of speech is unembed?
Unembed is a verb.
What is the past tense of unembed?
The past tense of unembed is unembedded.

Words near unembed in the dictionary

  1. unembarrassedness
  2. unembarrassing
  3. unembarrassment
  4. unembattled
  5. unembayed
  6. unembed
  7. unembeddable
  8. unembedded
  9. unembedding
  10. unembeds
  11. unembellishable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unembed (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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