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dehooking

dehooking is the present participle and gerund of dehook.

Meaning of dehook

Verb

dehook (third-person singular simple present dehooks, present participle dehooking, simple past and past participle dehooked)

  1. (transitive) To remove a hook or hooks from.
    • There is no way an angler or guide should ever dehook a toothy specimen without gloves and pliers.2006, Hartt Wixom, Fishing: the extra edge, page 37

Questions about dehooking

What is dehooking the present participle and gerund of?
Dehooking is the present participle and gerund of dehook.

Words near dehooking in the dictionary

  1. dehonestating
  2. dehonestation
  3. Dehong
  4. dehook
  5. dehooked
  6. dehooking
  7. dehorn
  8. dehorned
  9. dehorner
  10. dehorners
  11. dehorning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dehooking (page history and authors); dehook (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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