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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unadd en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + add.

Meanings

  1. To remove something after it has been added.
    • Collaboration tends to be a one-way street: once you've added people to the project, it's hard to unadd them. 2011, Tim Phillips, Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle, Kogan Page Limited, →ISBN, page 50:
    • Adding fertilizer to a terrarium is a lot like adding salt to a recipe: Once you've added too much, you can't unadd it, and you've likely ruined the recipe! 2007, Philip Purser, Natural Terrariums, T. F. H. Publications, →ISBN, page 82:
    • i ve added him to /friends and will tell him about this thread next time we are both on. then unadd him from /friends and forget about it. 2001 October 24, Jim Quinn, “Re: Camp check”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unadds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unadded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unadded Tense=Past lexicographic
unadding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic