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deauthorise

deauthorise is the alternative spelling of deauthorize.

Meaning of deauthorize

Verb

deauthorize (third-person singular simple present deauthorizes, present participle deauthorizing, simple past and past participle deauthorized)

  1. (transitive) To revoke permission, sanction or consent from.
    • If you plan to get rid the of Dell desktop (or not use it for playing iTunes content) you should deauthorize it from the iTunes Store after you’ve moved the library — but before you shut it down that one last time.2011 July 20, J.D. Biersdorfer, “Q&A: Moving the Music to a New Machine”, in The New York Times

Forms of deauthorise

third-person singular presentdeauthorises
present participledeauthorising
past participledeauthorised
pastdeauthorised

Questions about deauthorise

What is deauthorise the alternative spelling of?
Deauthorise is the alternative spelling of deauthorize.

Words near deauthorise in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deauthorise (page history and authors); deauthorize (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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