untype
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untype (third-person singular simple present untypes, present participle untyping, simple past and past participle untyped)
- To erase text that has been typed.
- 1984, The Business Week - Part 6, page 201:
- One ribbon handles both printing and correcting, so it untypes as uniquely as it types.
- 1985, Life - Volume 8, page 137:
- The incredible WordEraserTM correction. It untypes whole words at a touch.
- 1998, David C. Kay, Microsoft Works 4.5 for Windows For Dummies, page 87:
- To untype something you just typed, you can also use Ctrl+Z.
- 2013, Dan Gookin, Word 2013 For Dummies, page 47:
- For example, you may type some text and then use Undo to “untype” the text.
- To overcome or avoid the usual typecasting of.
- 1953, Connery Chappell, Picturegoer Film Annual, page 80:
- He deglamorizes the stars and untypes the character players.
- 1954, Film News - Volumes 14-15, page 20:
- While Hollywood deserves credit for the attempt to untype her, yet she had best not stray so far from...
- 1971, Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, page 36:
- While it is Huston's talent to untype the familiar character actor by blowing up a particular physical gesture, he seems also to incapacitate actors with anticipated, summarized characters.