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unformatting

unformatting is the present participle and gerund of unformat.

Meaning of unformat

Verb

unformat (third-person singular simple present unformats, present participle unformatting, simple past and past participle unformatted)

  1. To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk.
    • Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66

Questions about unformatting

What is unformatting the present participle and gerund of?
Unformatting is the present participle and gerund of unformat.

Words near unformatting in the dictionary

  1. unformation
  2. unformative
  3. unformats
  4. unformattable
  5. unformatted
  6. unformatting
  7. unformed
  8. unformedly
  9. unformedness
  10. unformidable
  11. unforming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unformatting (page history and authors); unformat (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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