undub

English

Etymology

un- +‎ dub

Verb

undub (third-person singular simple present undubs, present participle undubbing, simple past and past participle undubbed)

1. (transitive) To withdraw a knighthood from.
   • 2003, Roger Burrow Manning, Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms, page 86:

     In 1624, Arundel […] declared that Sir Thomas Harris, a Shropshire baronet, was 'no gentleman'; at the same time Arundel discovered that his authority did not extend to undubbing the baronet because that honour had been granted by 'patent under the under the great seal of England'.

2. (transitive, video games) To unofficially modify (a video game) so as to restore the original spoken audio that had been localized for export, while retaining the translated text of the target language.

Noun

undub (plural undubs)

1. (video games) A version of a video game that has been modified in this way.