Word.ws English Dictionary

unrelease

unrelease verb: to undo the release of; to withdraw.

Verb

unrelease (third-person singular simple present unreleases, present participle unreleasing, simple past and past participle unreleased)

  1. (rare, transitive) To undo the release of; to withdraw.
    • The same method can be used to unrelease a version.2011, Jobin Kuruvilla, JIRA Development Cookbook
    • Sébastien Togneri, the director of parliamentary affairs for the Minister of Public Works, had ordered an access to information manager to “unrelease” most of the report just as it was being mailed out to Beeby.2012, Mike Larsen, Kevin Walby, Brokering Access

Forms of unrelease

third-person singular presentunreleases
present participleunreleasing
past participleunreleased
pastunreleased

Origin of unrelease

From un- + release.

Questions about unrelease

What does unrelease mean?
Unrelease means to undo the release of; to withdraw.
What part of speech is unrelease?
Unrelease is a verb.
What is the past tense of unrelease?
The past tense of unrelease is unreleased.

Words near unrelease in the dictionary

  1. unrelaxable
  2. unrelaxed
  3. unrelaxing
  4. unrelaxingly
  5. unreleasable
  6. unrelease
  7. unreleased
  8. unreleases
  9. unreleasing
  10. unrelegated
  11. unrelented

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unrelease (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unrelease.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unrelease. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.