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untar

untar verb: to extract from a tar archive.

Verb

untar (third-person singular simple present untars, present participle untarring or (uncommon) untaring, simple past and past participle untarred or (uncommon) untared)

  1. (transitive) To extract from a tar archive.
    • I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405
    • This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764

Forms of untar

third-person singular presentuntars
present participleuntarring
present participle uncommonuntaring
past participleuntarred
pastuntarred
past participle uncommonuntared
past uncommonuntared

Origin of untar

From un- + tar.

Questions about untar

What does untar mean?
Untar means to extract from a tar archive.
What part of speech is untar?
Untar is a verb.
What is the past tense of untar?
The past tense of untar is untarred.

Words near untar in the dictionary

  1. untappices
  2. untappicing
  3. untapping
  4. untaps
  5. untapt
  6. untar
  7. untared
  8. untargetable
  9. untargeted
  10. untargetted
  11. untariffed

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