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deauthorizing

deauthorizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about deauthorizing

What is deauthorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Deauthorizing is the present participle and gerund of deauthorize.

Words near deauthorizing in the dictionary

  1. deauthorization
  2. deauthorizations
  3. deauthorize
  4. deauthorized
  5. deauthorizes
  6. deauthorizing
  7. deauths
  8. Deauville
  9. Deauvilles
  10. deavely
  11. Deaver

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