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deglorifying

deglorifying is the present participle and gerund of deglorify.

Meaning of deglorify

Verb

deglorify (third-person singular simple present deglorifies, present participle deglorifying, simple past and past participle deglorified)

  1. To remove glory from; to cause something to be less glorious; to dishonour.
    • One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime

Questions about deglorifying

What is deglorifying the present participle and gerund of?
Deglorifying is the present participle and gerund of deglorify.

Words near deglorifying in the dictionary

  1. degloried
  2. deglorification
  3. deglorified
  4. deglorifies
  5. deglorify
  6. deglorifying
  7. degloss
  8. deglossed
  9. deglosser
  10. deglossers
  11. deglosses

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