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delegitimating

delegitimating is the present participle and gerund of delegitimate.

Meaning of delegitimate

Verb

delegitimate (third-person singular simple present delegitimates, present participle delegitimating, simple past and past participle delegitimated)

  1. (transitive) To cause (something) not to be legitimate; to make illegitimate, to illegitimize.
    • Equally, the arguments delegitimate rival claims both from insiders […] and from outsiders seeking hegemony over the ‘national’ territory.2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 7
    Synonyms:
    delegitimize

Questions about delegitimating

What is delegitimating the present participle and gerund of?
Delegitimating is the present participle and gerund of delegitimate.

Words near delegitimating in the dictionary

  1. delegislating
  2. delegislation
  3. delegitimate
  4. delegitimated
  5. delegitimates
  6. delegitimating
  7. delegitimation
  8. delegitimations
  9. delegitimatise
  10. delegitimatised
  11. delegitimatises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delegitimating (page history and authors); delegitimate (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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