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unescaping

unescaping is the present participle and gerund of unescape.

Meaning of unescape

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

Questions about unescaping

What is unescaping the present participle and gerund of?
Unescaping is the present participle and gerund of unescape.

Words near unescaping in the dictionary

  1. unescapableness
  2. unescapably
  3. unescape
  4. unescaped
  5. unescapes
  6. unescaping
  7. unescheated
  8. uneschewable
  9. uneschewed
  10. UNESCO
  11. unescorted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unescaping (page history and authors); unescape (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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