Definition of unpublish in US English:
unpublish
verbˌənˈpəbliSHˌənˈpəblɪʃ
[with object]Make (content that has previously been published online) unavailable to the public.
the magazine first amended and then unpublished the article
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the images have been published on the internet it will be practically impossible for any court order to unpublish them.
- In an emergency, you can always unpublish a post that may have seen enough comments or had enough reads.
- After an outcry on Twitter, the magazine unpublished the column, but the editors at the blog Retraction Watch managed to find a cached version, reminding us all that the internet never forgets.
- The kind of comments which you have chosen to unpublish are not only hurtful and disrespectful, but they are poor reflections on our city.
- Both The New York Times and The Washington Post have policies establishing that they generally do not unpublish accurate articles.
Synonyms
cut, delete, delete parts of, redact, make cuts in, blue-pencil