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despecificating

despecificating is the present participle and gerund of despecificate.

Meaning of despecificate

Verb

despecificate (third-person singular simple present despecificates, present participle despecificating, simple past and past participle despecificated)

  1. (rare) To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
    • Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated, and only the latter now imparts folly.1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English

Questions about despecificating

What is despecificating the present participle and gerund of?
Despecificating is the present participle and gerund of despecificate.

Words near despecificating in the dictionary

  1. despeciating
  2. despeciation
  3. despecificate
  4. despecificated
  5. despecificates
  6. despecificating
  7. despecification
  8. despeckle
  9. despeckled
  10. despeckler
  11. despecklers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: despecificating (page history and authors); despecificate (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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