unembed

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Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ embed

Verb[edit]

unembed (third-person singular simple present unembeds, present participle unembedding, simple past and past participle unembedded)

  1. (transitive) To remove (something embedded) from what it is fixed in.
    • 2007 August 4, Christopher Buckley, “Our Man in Iraq, Embedded Unhappily”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.

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