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unindent

verb

Etymology

From un- + indent; Originated in the 1980s when computers made it simple for a writer to position text on a page.

  1. inherited from indenten
  2. prefixed as unindent — “un + indent”

Definitions

  1. To remove the indentation

    To remove the indentation; to move a block of text closer to the left margin.

    • I had to unindent the first line of each paragraph so that my essay would fit onto one side of paper.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unindent. 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