unborder

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ border

Verb[edit]

unborder (third-person singular simple present unborders, present participle unbordering, simple past and past participle unbordered)

  1. (transitive, rare) To remove a border or borders from.
    • 2008, Nick Symmonds, Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET, page 237:
      Highlight the picture in question by giving it a border. Don't foget [sic] to "unborder" the others.
    • 2020, Kathryn Mockler, Watch Your Head:
      How to threshold the threshold. How to live in the crossings of a threshold. How to unborder a border.
    • 2020, Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno, Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces, page 12:
      Moïse and Alexander both show interest in the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat whose obsession with unbordering the body is pointed out.