desemanticizing

Verb

desemanticize (third-person singular simple present desemanticizes, present participle desemanticizing, simple past and past participle desemanticized)

1. To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.
2. (rare) To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.
   • The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning.2011, Michael T. Putnam, Studies on German-Language Islands, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 406