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untabifying

untabifying is the present participle and gerund of untabify.

Meaning of untabify

Verb

untabify (third-person singular simple present untabifies, present participle untabifying, simple past and past participle untabified)

  1. (transitive) To reformat (text) by converting tab characters into spaces.
    • The untabify command works on a region.1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, page 221

Questions about untabifying

What is untabifying the present participle and gerund of?
Untabifying is the present participle and gerund of untabify.

Words near untabifying in the dictionary

  1. untabernacled
  2. untabification
  3. untabified
  4. untabifies
  5. untabify
  6. untabifying
  7. untableclothed
  8. untabled
  9. untabooed
  10. untabulatable
  11. untabulated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untabifying (page history and authors); untabify (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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