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dehosting

dehosting is the present participle and gerund of dehost.

Meaning of dehost

Verb

dehost (third-person singular simple present dehosts, present participle dehosting, simple past and past participle dehosted)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To cause (a website etc.) to lose connection with its host.
    • Traceroute for the domain returns a "DNS Authoritative: Host not found". […] Might this be compatible with the owner having 'dehosted' the domain?2012 May 12, Iain Archer, “Re: Police pursuits”, in uk.legal.moderated (Usenet)
  2. (transitive) To separate (a CRS or GDS) from the internal reservation system of an airline.

Questions about dehosting

What is dehosting the present participle and gerund of?
Dehosting is the present participle and gerund of dehost.

Words near dehosting in the dictionary

  1. dehospitalized
  2. dehospitalizes
  3. dehospitalizing
  4. dehost
  5. dehosted
  6. dehosting
  7. dehosts
  8. dehouse
  9. dehoused
  10. dehouses
  11. dehousing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dehosting (page history and authors); dehost (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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