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unprotect

unprotect verb: to remove protection from.

Verb

unprotect (third-person singular simple present unprotects, present participle unprotecting, simple past and past participle unprotected)

  1. (transitive) To remove protection from.
    • Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.
    • Caution: When you successfully open a protected file, you’ve just unprotected it. After working with that document and closing it again, you must re-protect it if you still consider it confidential.2000, David Pogue, “Icon Management”, in Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: Pogue Press/O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., published 2002, →ISBN, page 50

Forms of unprotect

third-person singular presentunprotects
present participleunprotecting
past participleunprotected
pastunprotected

Origin of unprotect

From un- + protect.; compare deprotect.

Words formed from unprotect

Questions about unprotect

What does unprotect mean?
Unprotect means to remove protection from.
What part of speech is unprotect?
Unprotect is a verb.
What is the past tense of unprotect?
The past tense of unprotect is unprotected.

Words near unprotect in the dictionary

  1. unprosperousness
  2. unprostitute
  3. unprostituted
  4. unprostrated
  5. unprosy
  6. unprotect
  7. unprotectable
  8. unprotected
  9. unprotected sex
  10. unprotectedly
  11. unprotectedness

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