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  • verb Present participle of untag.

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Examples

  • Remove photo or post from profile Only possible by untagging oneself.

    Facebook Updates Help Users Share Better With Others Katherine Boehret 2011

  • According to the survey, 52% of the women were using Facebook as a research tool to find out information about a prospective date, but the women weren't happy when their boyfriends weren't untagging and removing photos of ex-girlfriends in their Facebook timeline.

    Julie Spira: Has Sexting Become Mainstream for Young Women? Julie Spira 2012

  • Maybe the galaxy has just been untagging all the subsequent pictures because it's gained a lot of mass recently.

    NASA Hubble spots oldest galaxy yet Alexandra Petri 2010

  • Maybe the galaxy has just been untagging all the subsequent pictures because it's gained a lot of mass recently.

    NASA Hubble spots oldest galaxy yet Alexandra Petri 2010

  • According to the survey, 52% of the women were using Facebook as a research tool to find out information about a prospective date, but the women weren't happy when their boyfriends weren't untagging and removing photos of ex-girlfriends in their Facebook timeline.

    Julie Spira: Has Sexting Become Mainstream for Young Women? Julie Spira 2012

  • I've certainly done my share of untagging on Facebook.

    Panasonic DMC-FX78 lets you do in-camera makeovers 2011

  • Maybe the galaxy has just been untagging all the subsequent pictures because it's gained a lot of mass recently.

    NASA Hubble spots oldest galaxy yet Alexandra Petri 2010

  • If that ever shows up on Facebook, I'm untagging myself.

    And, As Is Typical For The Emu, All Of A Sudden The World EXPLODES emu-head 2007

  • But to a large and thorough sweeping comprehension of him, it behooves me now to unbutton him still further, and untagging the points of his hose, unbuckling his garters, and casting loose the hooks and the eyes of the joints of his innermost bones, set him before you in his ultimatum; that is to say, in his unconditional skeleton.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • But to a large and thorough sweeping comprehension of him, it behoves me now to unbutton him still further, and untagging the points of his hose, unbuckling his garters, and casting loose the hooks and the eyes of the joints of his innermost bones, set him before you in his ultimatum; that is to say, in his unconditional skeleton.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

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