unborder

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verb

To remove a border or borders from.

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Meanings

verbunborder (third-person singular simple present unborders, present participle unbordering, simple past and past participle unbordered)

present singular third person unborders · participle present unbordering · participle past unbordered · past unbordered

  1. raretransitiveTo remove a border or borders from.

    How to threshold the threshold. How to live in the crossings of a threshold. How to unborder a border.

    2020, Kathryn Mockler, Watch Your Head
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    Highlight the picture in question by giving it a border. Don't foget ^([sic]) to "unborder" the others.

    2008, Nick Symmonds, Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET, page 237

    Moïse and Alexander both show interest in the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat whose obsession with unbordering the body is pointed out.

    2020, Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno, Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces, page 12

Origin

From un- + border.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Redbourn
Cite this entry
APA

unborder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unborder

MLA

“unborder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unborder. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unborder,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unborder.

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