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unwiping

unwiping is the present participle and gerund of unwipe.

Meaning of unwipe

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

Questions about unwiping

What is unwiping the present participle and gerund of?
Unwiping is the present participle and gerund of unwipe.

Words near unwiping in the dictionary

  1. unwinterized
  2. unwintry
  3. unwipe
  4. unwiped
  5. unwipes
  6. unwiping
  7. unwire
  8. unwired
  9. unwires
  10. unwiring
  11. unwisdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwiping (page history and authors); unwipe (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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