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verbungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)
present singular third person ungzips · participle present ungzipping · participle past ungzipped · past ungzipped
- transitivecomputingTo decompress (data previously gzipped).
I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]
2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 4051 more example
This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]
2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764
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APA
ungzip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ungzip
MLA
“ungzip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ungzip. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ungzip,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ungzip.
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