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unpublishing

unpublishing is the present participle and gerund of unpublish.

Meaning of unpublish

Verb

unpublish (third-person singular simple present unpublishes, present participle unpublishing, simple past and past participle unpublished)

  1. (transitive) To remove (something previously published) from circulation; to retract.
    • To unpublish a calendar: 1. In the Applications folder, double-click the iCal icon to open the application. The main iCal window opens; in the Calendars section on the left, published calendars have a small mark to the right of their names […]2005, David Reynolds, Mac, page 178

Questions about unpublishing

What is unpublishing the present participle and gerund of?
Unpublishing is the present participle and gerund of unpublish.

Words near unpublishing in the dictionary

  1. unpublishability
  2. unpublishable
  3. unpublishably
  4. unpublished
  5. unpublishes
  6. unpublishing
  7. unpublisht
  8. unpucker
  9. unpuckered
  10. unpuckering
  11. unpuckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpublishing (page history and authors); unpublish (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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