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anonymizing

anonymizing is the present participle and gerund of anonymize.

Meaning of anonymize

Verb

anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)

  1. (transitive) To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).
    • This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11

Questions about anonymizing

What is anonymizing the present participle and gerund of?
Anonymizing is the present participle and gerund of anonymize.

Words near anonymizing in the dictionary

  1. anonymize
  2. anonymized
  3. anonymizer
  4. anonymizers
  5. anonymizes
  6. anonymizing
  7. anonymosity
  8. anonymous
  9. anonymous class
  10. anonymous classes
  11. anonymous function

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anonymizing (page history and authors); anonymize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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