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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unembed en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + embed.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To remove (something embedded) from what it is fixed in.
    • It goes on and gets rather graphic as Jimmy, under the impression that he’s speaking to someone at The Herald, pleads to be unembedded. 2007 August 4, Christopher Buckley, “Our Man in Iraq, Embedded Unhappily”, in New York Times:

Forms

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unembeds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unembedding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unembedded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unembedded Tense=Past lexicographic