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detagging

detagging is the present participle and gerund of detag.

Meaning of detag

Verb

detag (third-person singular simple present detags, present participle detagging, simple past and past participle detagged)

  1. (transitive) To strip of a tag or tags; to remove the tags from.
    • The next day I find myself tagged on my new profile kissing a female friend, pressed underneath her, hair and sweat and sideboob, giggling at something just off-camera. I detag, but for some reason I leave it up, mistaking the profile archive for the online equivalent of a personal photo album, as...2014, Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, A&C Black, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    untag

Questions about detagging

What is detagging the present participle and gerund of?
Detagging is the present participle and gerund of detag.

Words near detagging in the dictionary

  1. detackifying
  2. detacking
  3. detacks
  4. detag
  5. detagged
  6. detagging
  7. detags
  8. detail
  9. detail man
  10. detailed
  11. detailed balance

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