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deoccupying

deoccupying is the present participle and gerund of deoccupy.

Meaning of deoccupy

Verb

deoccupy (third-person singular simple present deoccupies, present participle deoccupying, simple past and past participle deoccupied)

  1. To remove an occupation from (a place).
    • Estonia and Latvia also had more radical nationalist groups, known as Citizens Congresses, which advocated “deoccupying” the region by sending Russian migrants and their families back to Russia. Support for the Soviet regime was[…]2021 June 22, Zsuzsa Csergő, Daina S. Eglitis, Paula M. Pickering, Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 403

Questions about deoccupying

What is deoccupying the present participle and gerund of?
Deoccupying is the present participle and gerund of deoccupy.

Words near deoccupying in the dictionary

  1. deobstruents
  2. deoccupation
  3. deoccupied
  4. deoccupies
  5. deoccupy
  6. deoccupying
  7. deoculate
  8. deoculated
  9. deoculates
  10. deoculating
  11. deodand

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