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unescape

unescape verb: to reverse the escaping of a string.

Verb

unescape (third-person singular simple present unescapes, present participle unescaping, simple past and past participle unescaped)

  1. To reverse the escaping of a string.
    • Hopefully, the possibilities afforded by escaping and unescaping strings are now becoming clear.2006, Richard Leggett et al., Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices, →ISBN, page 76

Forms of unescape

third-person singular presentunescapes
present participleunescaping
past participleunescaped
pastunescaped

Origin of unescape

From un- + escape.

Questions about unescape

What does unescape mean?
Unescape means to reverse the escaping of a string.
What part of speech is unescape?
Unescape is a verb.
What is the past tense of unescape?
The past tense of unescape is unescaped.

Words near unescape in the dictionary

  1. unescalated
  2. unescapability
  3. unescapable
  4. unescapableness
  5. unescapably
  6. unescape
  7. unescaped
  8. unescapes
  9. unescaping
  10. unescheated
  11. uneschewable

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