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commenting out

commenting out is the present participle and gerund 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 commenting out

What is commenting out the present participle and gerund of?
Commenting out is the present participle and gerund of comment out.

Words near commenting out in the dictionary

  1. commented
  2. commented out
  3. commenter
  4. commenters
  5. commenting
  6. commenting out
  7. commentings
  8. commentitious
  9. commentize
  10. commentized
  11. commentizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commenting 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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