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unshadowing

unshadowing is the present participle and gerund of unshadow.

Meaning of unshadow

Verb

unshadow (third-person singular simple present unshadows, present participle unshadowing, simple past and past participle unshadowed)

  1. (transitive) To free from shadow; to allow to become illuminated.
  2. (transitive) To combine (a password file) with its corresponding "shadow file" in order to facilitate cracking of the passwords.

Questions about unshadowing

What is unshadowing the present participle and gerund of?
Unshadowing is the present participle and gerund of unshadow.

Words near unshadowing in the dictionary

  1. unshadowban
  2. unshadowbanned
  3. unshadowbanning
  4. unshadowbans
  5. unshadowed
  6. unshadowing
  7. unshadows
  8. unshadowy
  9. unshady
  10. unshafted
  11. unshaggable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshadowing (page history and authors); unshadow (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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