untar

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verb

To extract from a tar archive.

OriginEnglish tar ← Middle English on- ← Old English on- →
UncommonScrabble 5
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Meanings

verbuntar (third-person singular simple present untars, present participle untarring or (uncommon) untaring, simple past and past participle untarred or (uncommon) untared)

present singular third person untars · participle present untarring · participle present uncommon untaring · participle past untarred · past untarred · participle past uncommon untared · past uncommon untared

  1. transitivecomputingTo extract from a tar archive.

    I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]

    2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405
    1 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

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Germanic*anda-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*anda-
  5. Old Englishand-
  6. Old Englishon-
  7. Middle Englishon-
  8. Englishun-
  9. Englishtar
  10. Englishuntar

From un- + tar.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

TarunTuranRutantanruarnut
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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