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depathologizing

depathologizing is the present participle and gerund of depathologize.

Meaning of depathologize

Verb

depathologize (third-person singular simple present depathologizes, present participle depathologizing, simple past and past participle depathologized)

  1. (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
    • […] by the 1970s, members of Tri-Ess were engineering newspaper articles and appearances on television to popularize and depathologize cross-dressing and help isolated heterosexual cross-dressers and their wives obtain support.2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights, page 172

Questions about depathologizing

What is depathologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Depathologizing is the present participle and gerund of depathologize.

Words near depathologizing in the dictionary

  1. depathologisation
  2. depathologization
  3. depathologize
  4. depathologized
  5. depathologizes
  6. depathologizing
  7. depatriarchalization
  8. depatriarchalize
  9. depatriarchalized
  10. depatriarchalizes
  11. depatriarchalizing

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