unzip

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ zip.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪp

Verb

unzip (third-person singular simple present unzips, present participle unzipping, simple past and past participle unzipped)

1. (transitive) To open something using a zipper.
   • 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 274:

     He turned back and started unzipping a bag.

2. (intransitive) To come open by means of a zipper.
3. (computing, transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.

   Synonyms: uncompress, decompress

Antonyms

• zip up

Translations

to open something using a zipper

Bulgarian: отварям ципа (otvarjam cipa) Finnish: avata vetoketju German: Reißverschluss öffnen Hungarian: kicipzároz (hu), kinyitja a cipzárját Norman: dêziper Spanish: bajar el síper, abrir el riqui

to come open by means of a zipper

Hungarian: kinyílik a cipzárja Norman: dêziper

computing: to decompress a zip file

Bulgarian: разгъвам (bg) (razgǎvam), разархивирам (bg) (razarhiviram) Catalan: descomprimir (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 解壓縮 / 解压缩 (zh) (jiěyāsuō) Czech: dekomprimovat Finnish: purkaa (fi) French: décompresser (fr), dézipper (fr) Galician: descomprimir German: entpacken (de), dekomprimieren, entzippen (de) Greek: αποσυμπιέζω (el) (aposympiézo) Hebrew: חלץ (he) m (h'aletz), פשט (he) m (fashét) Hungarian: kicsomagol (hu), kibont (hu), kitömörít (hu) Icelandic: afþjappa Italian: decomprimere (it) Maori: whewhera Norman: dêziper Occitan: descomprimir Portuguese: descomprimir, descompactar, deszipar Spanish: descomprimir (es)