unformat

English

Etymology

un- +‎ format

Verb

unformat (third-person singular simple present unformats, present participle unformatting, simple past and past participle unformatted)

1. (computing) To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk.
   • 1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66:

     Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

   • 1999, Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay, Kathy Warfel, WordPerfect 9 for Windows For Dummies, page 119:

     This step releases the button so that it isn't pressed in anymore, and the formatting should disappear. If one click doesn't do the trick, then some of the text probably wasn't formatted. It is now! Click the button again to unformat the text.

Anagrams

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