unban

present singular third person unbans · participle present unbanning · participle past unbanned · past unbanned

1. transitiveTo lift a ban against.

   ChanServ can unban you from your channel when someone has banned you […]

   2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks

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   De Klerk was not acting totally unilaterally and independently when he announced the decision to unban previously banned parties like the ANC […]

   2000, Julian Kunnie, Is apartheid really dead?

   Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.

   2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022

plural unbans

1. The removal of a ban.

   As a matter of fact, I have unbanned you several times, and let an unban that I did not agree with stand.

   1998 May 2, JMarino516, “Necromancy”, in alt.religion.christian.calvary-chapel (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025

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   I'm not asking for an unban..even when that would happen I wouldn't enter...I dont feel the need to after the hostile approach of my being there.

   1998 November 24, paladijn, “Beware of possible PK'r in Justus”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025

   I'm not asking necessarily for an unban on myself, just a peek into your common sense and an unban on saravo connecting from nether.

   2000 December 1, DOSIUS, “[RANT] #rgvac”, in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025

   Synonyms: unbanning