unshorten

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ shorten.

Verb

unshorten (third-person singular simple present unshortens, present participle unshortening, simple past and past participle unshortened)

  1. (rare, transitive, chiefly computing) To expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.
    • 2010, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook, page 488:
      The following is a snippet from the UnShortEmAll Greasemonkey script, which unshortens the shortened URLs in Twitter []

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