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deauthenticate

deauthenticate verb: to reject as authentic; to falsify or disprove.

Verb

deauthenticate (third-person singular simple present deauthenticates, present participle deauthenticating, simple past and past participle deauthenticated)

  1. (transitive) To reject as authentic; to falsify or disprove.
    • In the hand of what person soever it be alleged by the witness to be, a case may happen in which it may be material (though at the expense of a distinct enquiry) to authenticate or deauthenticate it by ulterior evidence.1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence
  2. (transitive) To revoke the authentication of; to cause no longer to be authenticated.

Forms of deauthenticate

third-person singular presentdeauthenticates
present participledeauthenticating
past participledeauthenticated
pastdeauthenticated

Origin of deauthenticate

From de- + authenticate.

Questions about deauthenticate

What does deauthenticate mean?
Deauthenticate means to reject as authentic; to falsify or disprove.
What part of speech is deauthenticate?
Deauthenticate is a verb.
What is the past tense of deauthenticate?
The past tense of deauthenticate is deauthenticated.

Words near deauthenticate in the dictionary

  1. deaurates
  2. deaurating
  3. deauration
  4. deausaville
  5. deauth
  6. deauthenticate
  7. deauthenticated
  8. deauthenticates
  9. deauthenticating
  10. deauthentication
  11. deauthorise

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