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detacking

detacking is the present participle and gerund of detack.

Meaning of detack

Verb

detack (third-person singular simple present detacks, present participle detacking, simple past and past participle detacked)

  1. (transitive) To remove the tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) from a horse.

Questions about detacking

What is detacking the present participle and gerund of?
Detacking is the present participle and gerund of detack.

Words near detacking in the dictionary

  1. detackifier
  2. detackifiers
  3. detackifies
  4. detackify
  5. detackifying
  6. detacking
  7. detacks
  8. detag
  9. detagged
  10. detagging
  11. detags

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detacking (page history and authors); detack (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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