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unshorten

unshorten verb: to expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.

Verb

unshorten (third-person singular simple present unshortens, present participle unshortening, simple past and past participle unshortened)

  1. (rare, transitive) To expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.
    • The following is a snippet from the UnShortEmAll Greasemonkey script, which unshortens the shortened URLs in Twitter […]2010, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook, page 488

Forms of unshorten

third-person singular presentunshortens
present participleunshortening
past participleunshortened
pastunshortened

Origin of unshorten

From un- + shorten.

Questions about unshorten

What does unshorten mean?
Unshorten means to expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.
What part of speech is unshorten?
Unshorten is a verb.
What is the past tense of unshorten?
The past tense of unshorten is unshortened.

Words near unshorten in the dictionary

  1. unshored
  2. unshorn
  3. unshornness
  4. unshort
  5. unshorted
  6. unshorten
  7. unshortenable
  8. unshortened
  9. unshortening
  10. unshortens
  11. unshorting

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