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untarring

untarring is the present participle and gerund of untar.

Meaning of untar

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

Questions about untarring

What is untarring the present participle and gerund of?
Untarring is the present participle and gerund of untar.

Words near untarring in the dictionary

  1. untarnishable
  2. untarnished
  3. untarnisht
  4. untarred
  5. untarried
  6. untarring
  7. untarrying
  8. untars
  9. untasked
  10. untasseled
  11. untasselled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untarring (page history and authors); untar (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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