🧺 To remove whiteness 💻 To remove from list 🎨 Not white

to unwhite

9.4

To remove a person or device from an allowed list so it loses access

verb
/ʌnˈwaɪt/

Specialized

: bloquear

The administrator decided to unwhite the user's account after detecting unusual activity.

Examples

If you unwhite an email address, it may be blocked by the spam filter.
You should only unwhite devices that you no longer trust on the network.
The admin decided to unwhite the user's account.
Why did you unwhite that application?
The administrator decided to unwhite the user's account after detecting unusual activity.
If you unwhite an email address, it may be blocked by the spam filter.
You should only unwhite devices that you no longer trust on the network.

Synonyms

to weed out

vsto unwhite

37 3.8

To remove unwanted people or things from a group

removes specifically previously allowed items not general filtering or selection

to blacklist

vsto unwhite

19 4.4

To put someone or something on a list so people avoid them

removes prior approval and revokes trusted access often in computing

to winnow out

vsto unwhite

1 7.1

Remove people or things from a group because they are not suitable

removes previously trusted entries rather than narrowing choices in selection

Antonyms

to whitelist

Specialized

1 5.4

To add a person, program, or address to a list so they can access a system

Surface Forms

unwhite infinitive

unwhited past

unwhited past participle

unwhiting present participle

unwhites third person singular

Morphology

unwhite = white (semi-transparent) = un + white

Morphologically regular (negation by 'un-'), but the meaning relies on the technical slang use of 'white'/'whitelist' in computing, which is not general knowledge for learners.

Etymology

Unwhite combines un- ('not') with white as in whitelist (a list of allowed things), so to unwhite something is to remove it from a whitelist and stop treating it as allowed or trusted.