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Etymology edit

un- +‎ terminate

Verb edit

unterminate (third-person singular simple present unterminates, present participle unterminating, simple past and past participle unterminated)

  1. (transitive) To undo the termination of; to restore to an active or valid state.
    • 2004, Troy Anderson, The Way of Go, page 37:
      But, after decades of struggle by the terminated Coquilles to unterminate ourselves, Congress was compelled to right one wrong and asked the tribe as part of its restoration act of 1989 to become economically self-sufficient.