unban

From un- +‎ ban.

unban (third-person singular simple present unbans, present participle unbanning, simple past and past participle unbanned)

1. (transitive) To lift a ban against.
   • 2000, Julian Kunnie, Is apartheid really dead?:

     De Klerk was not acting totally unilaterally and independently when he announced the decision to unban previously banned parties like the ANC […]

   • 2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks:

     ChanServ can unban you from your channel when someone has banned you […]

   • 2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.

unban (plural unbans)

1. The removal of a ban.

   Synonym: unbanning

   • 1998 May 2, JMarino516, “Necromancy”, in alt.religion.christian.calvary-chapel‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 September 2025:

     As a matter of fact, I have unbanned you several times, and let an unban that I did not agree with stand.

   • 1998 November 24, paladijn, “Beware of possible PK'r in Justus”, in alt.games.diablo‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 September 2025:

     I'm not asking for an unban..even when that would happen I wouldn't enter...I dont feel the need to after the hostile approach of my being there.

   • 2000 December 1, DOSIUS, “[RANT] #rgvac”, in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 September 2025:

     I'm not asking necessarily for an unban on myself, just a peek into your common sense and an unban on saravo connecting from nether.