unshadow

English

Etymology

un- +‎ shadow

Verb

unshadow (third-person singular simple present unshadows, present participle unshadowing, simple past and past participle unshadowed)

  1. (transitive) To free from shadow; to allow to become illuminated.
  2. (transitive, computing) To combine (a password file) with its corresponding "shadow file" in order to facilitate cracking of the passwords.
Last modified on 10 January 2013, at 20:22