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unsave

unsave verb: to undo an act of saving; to erase.

Verb

unsave (third-person singular simple present unsaves, present participle unsaving, simple past and past participle unsaved)

  1. (transitive) To undo an act of saving; to erase.
    • to unsave a Snapchat message
    • It is an error to try to unsave a file which doesn't exist.1986, Larry Joel Goldstein, Structured Programming with True BASIC, page 267

Forms of unsave

third-person singular presentunsaves
present participleunsaving
past participleunsaved
pastunsaved

Origin of unsave

From un- + save.

Questions about unsave

What does unsave mean?
Unsave means to undo an act of saving; to erase.
What part of speech is unsave?
Unsave is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsave?
The past tense of unsave is unsaved.

Words near unsave in the dictionary

  1. unsaturnine
  2. unsauced
  3. unsavable
  4. unsavage
  5. unsavaged
  6. unsave
  7. unsaveable
  8. unsaved
  9. unsaves
  10. unsaving
  11. unsavored

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