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deconcocting

deconcocting is the present participle and gerund of deconcoct.

Meaning of deconcoct

Verb

deconcoct (third-person singular simple present deconcocts, present participle deconcocting, simple past and past participle deconcocted)

  1. To decompose or break down.
    • these Benedictines have had their crudities deconcocted, and have been drawn out into more slender threads of sub - divisions1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Questions about deconcocting

What is deconcocting the present participle and gerund of?
Deconcocting is the present participle and gerund of deconcoct.

Words near deconcocting in the dictionary

  1. deconceptualizes
  2. deconceptualizing
  3. Deconcini
  4. deconcoct
  5. deconcocted
  6. deconcocting
  7. deconcocts
  8. decondensation
  9. decondensations
  10. decondense
  11. decondensed

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