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deabbreviating

deabbreviating is the present participle of deabbreviate.

Meaning of deabbreviate

Verb

deabbreviate (third-person singular simple present deabbreviates, present participle deabbreviating, simple past and past participle deabbreviated)

  1. (rare) To expand (an abbreviation).
    • Simplified Main Stress Rule in Deabbreviated Form1973, Alvin L. Gregg, Capturing Native Intuitions: A Criticism of the Chomsky-Halle Auxiliary Reduction Rules
    Synonyms:
    unabbreviate

Questions about deabbreviating

What is deabbreviating the present participle of?
Deabbreviating is the present participle of deabbreviate.

Words near deabbreviating in the dictionary

  1. dea ex machina
  2. Dea Nutrix
  3. deabbreviate
  4. deabbreviated
  5. deabbreviates
  6. deabbreviating
  7. deabstraction
  8. deaccelerate
  9. deaccelerated
  10. deaccelerates
  11. deaccelerating

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