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detusking

detusking is the present participle and gerund of detusk.

Meaning of detusk

Verb

detusk (third-person singular simple present detusks, present participle detusking, simple past and past participle detusked)

  1. (transitive) To remove the tusks from (an elephant, a boar, etc.).

Questions about detusking

What is detusking the present participle and gerund of?
Detusking is the present participle and gerund of detusk.

Words near detusking in the dictionary

  1. deturpation
  2. deturpations
  3. deturs
  4. detusk
  5. detusked
  6. detusking
  7. detusks
  8. Detweiler
  9. Detweilers
  10. Detwiler
  11. Detwilers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detusking (page history and authors); detusk (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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