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dehighlight

dehighlight verb: to remove a selection highlight from.

Verb

dehighlight (third-person singular simple present dehighlights, present participle dehighlighting, simple past and past participle dehighlighted)

  1. (transitive) To remove a selection highlight from.

Forms of dehighlight

third-person singular presentdehighlights
present participledehighlighting
past participledehighlighted
pastdehighlighted

Origin of dehighlight

From de- + highlight.

Questions about dehighlight

What does dehighlight mean?
Dehighlight means to remove a selection highlight from.
What part of speech is dehighlight?
Dehighlight is a verb.
What is the past tense of dehighlight?
The past tense of dehighlight is dehighlighted.

Words near dehighlight in the dictionary

  1. dehexed
  2. dehexes
  3. dehexing
  4. dehgan
  5. dehgans
  6. dehighlight
  7. dehighlighted
  8. dehighlighting
  9. dehighlights
  10. dehire
  11. dehired

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