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unprotect

verb

Etymology

From un- + protect.

  1. derived from prōtēctus
  2. prefixed as unprotect — “un + protect”

Definitions

  1. To remove protection from.

    • Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.
    • Caution: When you successfully open a protected file, you’ve just unprotected it. After working with that document and closing it again, you must re-protect it if you still consider it confidential.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unprotect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unprotect02protection03safe04danger05exposure06unprotected

A definitional loop anchored at unprotect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at unprotect

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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