unabbreviate

English

Etymology

un- +‎ abbreviate

Verb

unabbreviate (third-person singular simple present unabbreviates, present participle unabbreviating, simple past and past participle unabbreviated)

1. (uncommon, transitive) To make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.
   • 1967, Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, Dover, published 2002, page 293:

     It is easy to see what is going on, if in G & ∀x∃yP(x, y) we not only unabbreviate G, but take the outer conjunctions apart, […]