ungzip

English

Etymology

un- +‎ gzip

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌnˈd͡ʒiːzɪp/

Verb

ungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)

(computing, transitive) To decompress (data previously gzipped).
- 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405:
  I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]
- 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764:
  This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

Anagrams

gunzip, zip gun, zipgun

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