🗣️ To end a quote ✂️ To remove quotes 🔓 To decode text

to unquote

7.2

To change text with codes back to its original form

verb
/ʌnˈkwoʊt/

Specialized

: deshacer comillas

Some tools automatically unquote special characters in web addresses for easier reading.

Examples

After copying the encoded string, you need to unquote it to see the original message.
Please unquote the text for clarity.
The program will unquote the URL so it can be read by the server.
I need to unquote this part of the document.
To understand the programming error, we need to unquote the string to see the raw message.
You can unquote the text before displaying it to make it readable again.
It's important to unquote the data in order to analyze its original values.

Idioms

quote unquote

Informal

6 7.7

To show a word someone else said or that you doubt it

Surface Forms

unquote infinitive

unquoted past

unquoted past participle

unquoting present participle

unquotes third person singular

Morphology

unquote = quote (transparent) = un + quote

The verb is a straightforward negative/prefixation: 'un-' (remove/not) + 'quote' yields the sense of removing or reversing quoting.

Etymology

Unquote breaks into un- and quote, where un- means 'remove' or 'reverse' and quote means 'to mark text'. So to unquote a URL or encoded string is to remove the quoting or encoding and get the original text.