uncapitalize

English

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Etymology

un- +‎ capitalize

Verb

uncapitalize (third-person singular simple present uncapitalizes, present participle uncapitalizing, simple past and past participle uncapitalized)

  1. (transitive) To convert the first letter (or more) of (something) from uppercase to lowercase; to make uncapitalized.
    • 2004, Stanley Zarowin, “A Quick Way to Capitalize and Uncapitalize”, in Journal of Accountancy:
      The easy way to uncapitalize text is to highlight it and press Shift+F3
    • 2009, David E. Volk, Talk:NMR spectroscopy/Draft:
      Section 2.1 uncapitalize tetramethylsilane since it is mid-sentence

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