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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unborder en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + border.

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To remove a border or borders from.
    • Moïse and Alexander both show interest in the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat whose obsession with unbordering the body is pointed out. 2020, Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno, Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces, page 12:
    • Highlight the picture in question by giving it a border. Don't foget ^([sic]) to "unborder" the others. 2008, Nick Symmonds, Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET, page 237:
    • How to threshold the threshold. How to live in the crossings of a threshold. How to unborder a border. 2020, Kathryn Mockler, Watch Your Head:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unborders Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unbordering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unbordered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unbordered Tense=Past lexicographic