uncommit

English

Etymology

un- +‎ commit

Verb

uncommit (third-person singular simple present uncommits, present participle uncommitting, simple past and past participle uncommitted)

  1. (transitive) To cancel being committed to something; to release from obligation.
    • 2011, Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, page 97:
      For now, the brief answer is: believing that I am always free to uncommit myself is not the same as having reason to think that I will do so.
  2. (transitive, computing) To undo a change that had been applied.
    to uncommit a transaction
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