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deauthenticating

deauthenticating is the present participle and gerund of deauthenticate.

Meaning of deauthenticate

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.

Questions about deauthenticating

What is deauthenticating the present participle and gerund of?
Deauthenticating is the present participle and gerund of deauthenticate.

Words near deauthenticating in the dictionary

  1. deausaville
  2. deauth
  3. deauthenticate
  4. deauthenticated
  5. deauthenticates
  6. deauthenticating
  7. deauthentication
  8. deauthorise
  9. deauthorised
  10. deauthorises
  11. deauthorising

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