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depersoning

depersoning is the present participle and gerund of deperson.

Meaning of deperson

Verb

deperson (third-person singular simple present depersons, present participle depersoning, simple past and past participle depersoned)

  1. (transitive) To take away essential attributes of a person; to make a human being less of a person.
    • […] the depopulator, the thing or system that depopulates or depersons, accords with my own dream scene: foliage dissolving, solid state cartridges sliding, persons silently far away blown up into volumes of illuminated centimeters, my own family choking on space.2018, David Porush, The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction

Questions about depersoning

What is depersoning the present participle and gerund of?
Depersoning is the present participle and gerund of deperson.

Words near depersoning in the dictionary

  1. depersonate
  2. depersonated
  3. depersonates
  4. depersonating
  5. depersoned
  6. depersoning
  7. depersons
  8. deperturb
  9. depetal
  10. depetaled
  11. depetaling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depersoning (page history and authors); deperson (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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