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decontextualizing

decontextualizing is the present participle and gerund of decontextualize.

Meaning of decontextualize

Verb

decontextualize (third-person singular simple present decontextualizes, present participle decontextualizing, simple past and past participle decontextualized)

  1. (transitive) To divest of context.
    • Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109
    Antonyms:
    contextualize

Questions about decontextualizing

What is decontextualizing the present participle and gerund of?
Decontextualizing is the present participle and gerund of decontextualize.

Words near decontextualizing in the dictionary

  1. decontextualization
  2. decontextualizations
  3. decontextualize
  4. decontextualized
  5. decontextualizes
  6. decontextualizing
  7. decontract
  8. decontracted
  9. decontracting
  10. decontraction
  11. decontractions

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