Undeleting

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The action or process of recovering or restoring something that has been erased, removed, or deleted from a storage medium or system; reversing the effect of deletion to regain access to lost data or information; restoring a previously deleted item to its original state or location
2. The act of retrieving or reinstating content that was previously eliminated; undoing the removal of files, records, or entries to make them accessible or visible again; the process of bringing back data that was thought to be permanently discarded
3. The procedure of rescuing erased or removed information from a source such as a computer or database; reversing deletion to recover lost files or documents; the method of making a previously deleted element available and active once more

Etymology: "Undeleting" is the -ing form of "undelete," which is formed by adding the prefix "un-" to "delete." "Delete" comes from the Latin "deletus," the past participle of "delere," meaning "to destroy" or "to blot out." The "un-" prefix reverses the action, so "undelete" means to restore what was removed, and the -ing form names the process of doing so, as in undeleting a file.

Synonyms: restoring, recovering, retrieving

Antonyms: deleting, erasing, removing