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unwipe

unwipe verb: to undelete; to restore (data, files, etc.) previously wiped.

Verb

unwipe (third-person singular simple present unwipes, present participle unwiping, simple past and past participle unwiped)

  1. (transitive) To undelete; to restore (data, files, etc.) previously wiped.
    • Of course, before that, he had put the photo files he'd made on disk and had erased them from the hard drive. While a good troubleshooter could unwipe them, he'd first have to crack the security barriers Tim had installed.2010, James Robert Smith, The Flock, page 148
    • So the computer wipe had been cursory, and it had taken Bingwen only a few minutes to unwipe everything.2014, Orson Scott Card, Earth Awakens

Forms of unwipe

third-person singular presentunwipes
present participleunwiping
past participleunwiped
pastunwiped

Origin of unwipe

From un- + wipe.

Questions about unwipe

What does unwipe mean?
Unwipe means to undelete; to restore (data, files, etc.) previously wiped.
What part of speech is unwipe?
Unwipe is a verb.
What is the past tense of unwipe?
The past tense of unwipe is unwiped.

Words near unwipe in the dictionary

  1. unwinnowed
  2. Unwins
  3. unwinsome
  4. unwinterized
  5. unwintry
  6. unwipe
  7. unwiped
  8. unwipes
  9. unwiping
  10. unwire
  11. unwired

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