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  • adjective Not abbreviated
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unabbreviate.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ abbreviated

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See unabbreviate (verb)

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Examples

  • Just inside the door sat a pair of metal cases, knee-high, hexagonal, green-grey, a sticker centered on each with Mina's name, unabbreviated, the way nobody ever used it.

    Celluloid 2009

  • Just inside the door sat a pair of metal cases, knee-high, hexagonal, green-grey, a sticker centered on each with Mina's name, unabbreviated, the way nobody ever used it.

    Celluloid Jürgen Fauth 2009

  • One of the perks of being a bookseller is the ARC, sometimes called the advance reading copy in its unabbreviated form.

    Reading Stephen King's Latest Book Before You RICHARD 2008

  • Some did so out of a desire for an unabbreviated expression of their African heritage that could not be mistaken or derided as an allusion to the afro hairstyle.

    Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Black's Fine, Thanks: Writer Deborah Dickerson Pulls the Obama Race Card 2008

  • I cannot believe that I just spent five consecutive hours playing Taboo and Trivial Persuit: Pop Culture, in an unabbreviated state of sobriety.

    anti-gens Diary Entry anti-gens 2005

  • As I understand it, the unabbreviated procedure takes about twenty-six weeks.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • She always called him by his unabbreviated name when she was irritated.

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

  • The Chinese butler had grown familiar with Faraday's attractive countenance and his unabbreviated English, when late one warm and sunny afternoon the young man pulled the bell of the great oaken door of the

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • "Miss" attached to each, and the name of the town and the State in its unabbreviated length.

    When Patty Went to College 1903

  • She gave in full the list of the seventeen girls who had been honored with scholarships, laboriously writing out their full names, with "Miss" attached to each, and the name of the town and the State in its unabbreviated length.

    When Patty Went to College Jean Webster 1896

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