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unshortening

unshortening is the present participle and gerund of unshorten.

Meaning of unshorten

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

Questions about unshortening

What is unshortening the present participle and gerund of?
Unshortening is the present participle and gerund of unshorten.

Words near unshortening in the dictionary

  1. unshort
  2. unshorted
  3. unshorten
  4. unshortenable
  5. unshortened
  6. unshortening
  7. unshortens
  8. unshorting
  9. unshorts
  10. unshot
  11. unshots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshortening (page history and authors); unshorten (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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