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unshorten

verb

Etymology

From un- + shorten.

  1. inherited from *skurtōną✻ — “to shorten”
  2. inherited from sċortian — “to become short”
  3. inherited from schorten — “to make short, shorten”
  4. inherited from shortnen
  5. prefixed as unshorten — “un + shorten”

Definitions

  1. To expand from an abbreviated form

    To expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.

    • The following is a snippet from the UnShortEmAll Greasemonkey script, which unshortens the shortened URLs in Twitter […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unshorten. 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