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unprivating

unprivating is the present participle and gerund of unprivate.

Meaning of unprivate

Verb

unprivate (third-person singular simple present unprivates, present participle unprivating, simple past and past participle unprivated)

  1. (transitive) To make not private.
    • But the HP41 private mode was easily defeated. I still have my HP 41 and it's^([sic]) card reader. I was looking thru the cards recently and ran across one that is used to 'UNprivate' a program. Load the private program, then run the UNprivate card and the program is viewable.1995 September 20, JJAker [username; Jack Aker], “Copy-Protecting HP48G/GX Programs”, in comp.sys.hp48 (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024

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Questions about unprivating

What is unprivating the present participle and gerund of?
Unprivating is the present participle and gerund of unprivate.

Words near unprivating in the dictionary

  1. unprissy
  2. unpristine
  3. unprivate
  4. unprivated
  5. unprivates
  6. unprivating
  7. unprivatize
  8. unprivatized
  9. unprivatizes
  10. unprivatizing
  11. unprivileged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unprivating (page history and authors); unprivate (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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