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undelete

verb

Etymology

From un- + delete.

  1. borrowed from dēlētus
  2. prefixed as undelete — “un + delete”

Definitions

  1. To recover (a file, record, etc.) from a deleted state

    To recover (a file, record, etc.) from a deleted state; restore.

    • To undelete (that's un-delete, not undulate — don't get excited) something that you deleted by accident, press Ctrl+Z. You have to do this immediately, like cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or you lose the patient.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for undelete. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA