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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unescape en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English escape English unescape From un- + escape.

Meanings

  1. To reverse the escaping of a string.
    • Hopefully, the possibilities afforded by escaping and unescaping strings are now becoming clear. 2006, Richard Leggett et al., Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices, →ISBN, page 76:

Forms

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unescaped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unescaped Tense=Past lexicographic
unescaping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unescapes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic