uninstall

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ install.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

uninstall (third-person singular simple present uninstalls, present participle uninstalling, simple past and past participle uninstalled)

1. (computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
   • 2013 December 24, Heather Kelly, “Tips for getting started with your new mobile gadget”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 July 2016:

     Apple devices are more conservative with preinstalled apps, but there is a core group of iOS apps you can't uninstall.

Derived terms

• uninstaller

Related terms

• uninstallation

Translations

completely remove hardware or software

• Armenian: ապատեղադրել (apateġadrel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卸載 / 卸载 (zh) (xiè zài), 解除安裝 / 解除安装 (jiě chú ān zhuāng)

• Czech: odinstalovat
• Dutch: de-installeren (nl)
• Esperanto: malinstali
• Finnish: poistaa (fi), poistaa asennus
• French: désinstaller (fr)
• Galician: desinstalar
• Georgian: დეინსტალაცია (deinsṭalacia), ამოშლა (amošla)
• German: deinstallieren (de)
• Greek: απεγκαθιστώ (el) (apegkathistó)
• Hungarian: eltávolít (hu)
• Italian: disinstallare
• Malay: nyahpasang (ms)
• Māori: tangoutanga, wetetāuta
• Polish: odinstalowywać impf, odinstalować pf, dezinstalować impf or pf
• Portuguese: desinstalar (pt)
• Russian: удали́ть (ru) (udalítʹ)
• Spanish: desinstalar (es)
• Swedish: avinstallera (sv)
• Turkish: kaldırmak (tr), silmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: видалити (vydalyty)

Noun

uninstall (plural uninstalls)

1. (computing) An uninstallation process.
   • 2004, Ron Ben-Natan, Richard Gornitsky, Tim Hanis, Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal:

     But what happens if the uninstall does not work, is corrupt, or is accidentally deleted? Then, a manual uninstall is necessary […]