"untype" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + type.",
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      "form": "untypes",
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      "form": "untyped",
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          "ref": "1984, The Business Week - Part 6, page 201:",
          "text": "One ribbon handles both printing and correcting, so it untypes as uniquely as it types.",
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        {
          "ref": "1985, Life - Volume 8, page 137:",
          "text": "The incredible WordEraserᵀᴹ correction. It untypes whole words at a touch.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, David C. Kay, Microsoft Works 4.5 for Windows For Dummies, page 87:",
          "text": "To untype something you just typed, you can also use Ctrl+Z.",
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          "text": "For example, you may type some text and then use Undo to “untype” the text.",
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          "ref": "1953, Connery Chappell, Picturegoer Film Annual, page 80:",
          "text": "He deglamorizes the stars and untypes the character players.",
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          "ref": "1954, Film News - Volumes 14-15, page 20:",
          "text": "While Hollywood deserves credit for the attempt to untype her, yet she had best not stray so far from...",
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          "ref": "1971, Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, page 36:",
          "text": "While it is Huston's talent to untype the familiar character actor by blowing up a particular physical gesture, he seems also to incapacitate actors with anticipated, summarized characters.",
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          "text": "The incredible WordEraserᵀᴹ correction. It untypes whole words at a touch.",
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          "text": "To untype something you just typed, you can also use Ctrl+Z.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "For example, you may type some text and then use Undo to “untype” the text.",
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