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unrepairing

unrepairing is the present participle and gerund of unrepair.

Meaning of unrepair

Verb

unrepair (third-person singular simple present unrepairs, present participle unrepairing, simple past and past participle unrepaired)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To reverse the process of repairing.
    • I clicked the font repair in the TweakUI program expecting to see a dialogue box, instead it "repaired" my fonts. Now everytime^([sic]) I use a program and change the font it takes forever to load them. Any Ideas^([sic]) on how to unRepair^([sic]) the fonts. :)1997 February 9, John Hickman, “Tweak font repair Help with Unrepair^([sic]) :)”, in comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95 (Usenet)

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Questions about unrepairing

What is unrepairing the present participle and gerund of?
Unrepairing is the present participle and gerund of unrepair.

Words near unrepairing in the dictionary

  1. unrepainted
  2. unrepair
  3. unrepairable
  4. unrepairably
  5. unrepaired
  6. unrepairing
  7. unrepairs
  8. unreparted
  9. unrepassable
  10. unrepatriable
  11. unrepatriated

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