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deconflicting

deconflicting is the present participle and gerund of deconflict.

Meaning of deconflict

Verb

deconflict (third-person singular simple present deconflicts, present participle deconflicting, simple past and past participle deconflicted)

  1. To change the flight path of a craft or weapon to reduce the chance of an accidental collision or conflict with other obstacles, the terrain or weather.
  2. To provide information to a military force in order to prevent escalation of a conflict.
  3. To resolve contradictory conclusions or responses to queries in a rule-based or deductive reasoning system.
  4. To alter (something) to avoid conflicting with something else.
    • We need to deconflict our schedules to find a time when we can all meet.

Questions about deconflicting

What is deconflicting the present participle and gerund of?
Deconflicting is the present participle and gerund of deconflict.

Words near deconflicting in the dictionary

  1. deconflating
  2. deconflation
  3. deconflations
  4. deconflict
  5. deconflicted
  6. deconflicting
  7. deconfliction
  8. deconflictions
  9. deconflicts
  10. deconfound
  11. deconfounded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deconflicting (page history and authors); deconflict (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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