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commented out

commented out is the simple past and past participle of comment out.

Meaning of comment out

Verb

comment out (third-person singular simple present comments out, present participle commenting out, simple past and past participle commented out)

  1. (transitive) To disable a section of source code by converting it into a comment.
    • If you do not want to run this line of code, just comment it out!

Questions about commented out

What is commented out the simple past and past participle of?
Commented out is the simple past and past participle of comment out.

Words near commented out in the dictionary

  1. commentatours
  2. commentatress
  3. commentatresses
  4. commentatrix
  5. commented
  6. commented out
  7. commenter
  8. commenters
  9. commenting
  10. commenting out
  11. commentings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commented out (page history and authors); comment out (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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