unborder
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English
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[edit]unborder (third-person singular simple present unborders, present participle unbordering, simple past and past participle unbordered)
- (transitive, rare) To remove a border or borders from.
- 2008, Nick Symmonds, Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET, page 237:
- Highlight the picture in question by giving it a border. Don't foget [sic] to "unborder" the others.
- 2020, Kathryn Mockler, Watch Your Head:
- How to threshold the threshold. How to live in the crossings of a threshold. How to unborder a border.
- 2020, Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno, Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces, page 12:
- Moïse and Alexander both show interest in the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat whose obsession with unbordering the body is pointed out.