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deadapting

deadapting is the present participle and gerund of deadapt.

Meaning of deadapt

Verb

deadapt (third-person singular simple present deadapts, present participle deadapting, simple past and past participle deadapted)

  1. (intransitive) To adapt to a previous form
    • In this experiment it was assumed on hypothesis ( 1 ) that the cells will deadapt or partially deadapt in the absence of caffeine and be required to readapt in its presence.1960, Journal Canadien de Génétique Et de Cytologie

Questions about deadapting

What is deadapting the present participle and gerund of?
Deadapting is the present participle and gerund of deadapt.

Words near deadapting in the dictionary

  1. dead-wrong
  2. deadapt
  3. deadaptation
  4. deadaptations
  5. deadapted
  6. deadapting
  7. deadapts
  8. deadass
  9. deadasses
  10. deadband
  11. deadbands

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