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deheading

deheading is the present participle and gerund of dehead.

Meaning of dehead

Verb

dehead (third-person singular simple present deheads, present participle deheading, simple past and past participle deheaded)

  1. (transitive) To remove the head (from).
    • An operator of these types of machines is able to dehead up to 40 fish per minute.1990, Zdzislaw E. Sikorski, Seafood: Resources, Nutritional Composition, and Preservation

Questions about deheading

What is deheading the present participle and gerund of?
Deheading is the present participle and gerund of dehead.

Words near deheading in the dictionary

  1. dehazing
  2. Dehbozorgi
  3. Dehcho
  4. dehead
  5. deheaded
  6. deheading
  7. deheads
  8. deheat
  9. deheated
  10. deheating
  11. deheats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deheading (page history and authors); dehead (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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