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deprotecting

deprotecting is the present participle and gerund of deprotect.

Meaning of deprotect

Verb

deprotect (third-person singular simple present deprotects, present participle deprotecting, simple past and past participle deprotected)

  1. To remove protection from.
  2. To remove a protecting group from.

Questions about deprotecting

What is deprotecting the present participle and gerund of?
Deprotecting is the present participle and gerund of deprotect.

Words near deprotecting in the dictionary

  1. deprotamination
  2. deprotect
  3. deprotectant
  4. deprotectants
  5. deprotected
  6. deprotecting
  7. deprotection
  8. deprotections
  9. deprotects
  10. deproteinate
  11. deproteinated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deprotecting (page history and authors); deprotect (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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