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unzone

unzone verb: to remove from an assigned zone or zoning.

Verb

unzone (third-person singular simple present unzones, present participle unzoning, simple past and past participle unzoned)

  1. (transitive) To remove from an assigned zone or zoning.
    • St. Claude Avenue, from Poland to Delery Street is now zoned and I trust the Council will not unzone it and open it up to picture shows and other business places.1929, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 18
    • The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3.2018, Bertrand Dufrasne, Christian Burns, Wenzel Kalabza, IBM XIV Storage System Business Continuity Functions, page 331
  2. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To free from a girdle.
    • To this sad urn the fragrant cypress bring, / With the soft violets of the budding spring; / Breathe the deep sigh, unzone the sobbing breast, / And bid these ashes in sweet slumbers rest;1834, William Stanley Roscoe, Poems, page 116

Forms of unzone

third-person singular presentunzones
present participleunzoning
past participleunzoned
pastunzoned

Origin of unzone

From un- + zone.

Questions about unzone

What does unzone mean?
Unzone means to remove from an assigned zone or zoning.
What part of speech is unzone?
Unzone is a verb.
What is the past tense of unzone?
The past tense of unzone is unzoned.

Words near unzone in the dictionary

  1. unzippings
  2. unzips
  3. unzoki
  4. unzombified
  5. unzombify
  6. unzone
  7. unzoned
  8. unzones
  9. unzoning
  10. unzoom
  11. unzoomed

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