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unembedding

unembedding is the present participle and gerund of unembed.

Meaning of unembed

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

Questions about unembedding

What is unembedding the present participle and gerund of?
Unembedding is the present participle and gerund of unembed.

Words near unembedding in the dictionary

  1. unembattled
  2. unembayed
  3. unembed
  4. unembeddable
  5. unembedded
  6. unembedding
  7. unembeds
  8. unembellishable
  9. unembellished
  10. unembellishing
  11. unembezzled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unembedding (page history and authors); 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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